Improved font rendering with Direct2D

[jsmorley]

Beta revision 1879 - April 7.

Added support for TransformationMatrix (all meters) and Angle (string meters).

Made some changes to how font "family" and "subfamily" names are handled, to be more consistent with GDI+.

[moshi]

seems like fonts work now.

you are probably aware of it, ScaleMargins do not work:

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[poiru]

seems like fonts work now.

Yes, it should be a better now. There are still some issues left, but hopefully it will be fully sorted out next week.

[Seahorse]

Is there an ETA on a fix for fonts in @Resources\Fonts do not work as of this beta. please?

[Brian]

How about Sunday? Noon (EST)? Does that sound good?

-Brian

[Seahorse]

Thank you Sir - It impacts directly on the skins I am working on, hence I have not jumped to 3.0 and my interest not that i am back from holiday

[poiru]

you are probably aware of it, ScaleMargins do not work:

I've fixed this for the beta release later today. Thanks for reporting.

[jsmorley]

April 14, 2013
Rainmeter 3.0 r1900

Changes in this release include:

- The ability to load fonts in D2D with the "LocalFont" option or (preferably) the @Resources\Fonts automatic loading has been implemented.

- Major improvements to the handling of font recognition and family/subfamily attributes on both installed and "local" fonts.

- Fix for ScaleMargins and other image handling issues.

The major outstanding "issue" with the D2D implementation is some remaining inconsistencies between GDI+ and D2D relating to "relative positioning" of string meters with some fonts.

[moshi]

it appears to me it is not relative positioning, but rather font size.

in this shot you see the same skin, left is D2D, right is GDI+.

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it's pretty obvious at the http://www.paris.fr line.

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FontSize=7
FontFace=Source Sans Pro
StringStyle=NORMAL
Antialias=1

and see the line-break!

maybe one uses pixels and the other one points as measurements?

[moshi]

unrelated: the InputText plugin still uses a different font rendering than Rainmeter in general.
i think it uses the Windows standard font rendering, it never was GDI+ anyways.

in this shot you see D2D only. Windows 7.

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in the upper part you see a string meter that displays the input.
in the lower part you see how it looks while typing.

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FontFace=Source Sans Pro
FontSize=8
StringStyle=NORMAL
AntiAlias=1

difference in size is obvious.