Now, once you do that, you’ll find that Office 2007 is hardcoded to use a font that doesn’t work properly if you’ve turned off cleartype.
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WTF? Microsoft’s usability people are smokin some serious illicit substances!)īut here’s the official MS post on how to do it: But it requires you to create a new blank email to get access to the dialog. So, the chances of you finding it are pretty small :). Oh, and the button that it’s hidden inside has nothing to do with viewing, rendering, fonts, etc – it’s for formatting your emails. It’s also extremely difficult to turn off, as the option to turn it off is (allegedly) easy to find in Vista, but for XP it is hidden deep inside a page inside a dialog inside a button that replaces a menu item from previous versions of outlook inside a tab inside a dialog inside a menu item. This is pretty nasty, since it forces the use of ugly ClearType rendering (NB: if you’ve got an expensive LCD monitor, and good eyesight, these things can harm your wellbeing – your eyes will constantly try to focus on them, even though it’s impossible, leading to headaches etc) This is, officially, a deliberate feature from MS, designed to “show you what it would be like if you were using Vista”. If you find yourself with Outlook 2007 (or any other office 2007), there’s unfortunately a bug (“feature”) where it overrides all your OS font settings. You have to do a couple of things to fix the one bug, and I had to find all the different parts of the solution in different places, so I put them all together into one post here. Any ideas on fixing GPU scaling or finding a way of changing the aspect ratio without having to enable it would be much appreciated.(do you have fuzzy text in Outlook 2007? hard to read fonts? System settings for fonts broken in Office 2007? Help is at hand…). I've read somewhere that creating a custom resolution with a modified Hz range might fix the problem, but I'm too clueless to fiddle with those settings. (Don't know if that's relevant).ĭisplay scaling looks all right, but I really want to change the aspect ratio, and the monitor's menu has no such option. I use a VGA cable, connected to the GPU with a DVI adapter. I doubt it would solve the problem anyway.
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The manufacturer's site has no driver for it either, and even though I found some shady sites that claim to have it, I didn't risk the download.
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I couldn't find specific drivers for the monitor, device manager lists it as a "generic non PnP monitor". I've got a Radeon HD 6450 Graphics card with the latest drivers, and a Fujitsu Siemens B19-6 LED 19" 1280x1024. Maybe centered timings looks better only because the blur is less noticable on the smaller screen.
"Use centered timings" looks marginally better, but it unnecesarily decreases screen size, adding black bars on all sides, even on the native resolution (I don't know if that's normal). GPU scaling looks horrible on all resolutions with "Maintain aspect ratio" or "Scale image to full panel size" enabled, even on the native resolution. The whole screen became blurry, text is hard to read. This way I managed to add the black bars I wanted on the top and bottom of the screen, but the display quality degraded very noticably. The only way to do it seemed to be enabling GPU scaling with maintained aspect ratios in AMD's Catalyst Control Center, then changing the resolution in Win 10's display settings. Hi everybody, I've run into some problems trying to change the aspect ratio of my old 5:4 monitor.