Microsoft Office 2010 Forum

Hi there

Font rendering in Office 2010 is very blurry, to the point that anything but light editing in Office 2010 causes eye strain. Please see screengrab attached - you'll notice the blurry edges.

Can anyone help please? I get the feeling I'm missing something obvious! My research notes so far are below.

From my research Im pretty sure that this problem is solved for WINE users using winetricks (I haven't tried this myself), but I'm looking for a solution that I can use with Crossover XI out of the box. So far the only modifications I have made are to edit the Registry of my Office 2010 Bottle to include

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"FontSmoothing"="2"
"FontSmoothingType"=dword:00000002
"FontSmoothingGamma"=dword:00000578
"FontSmoothingOrientation"=dword:00000001

and to check that DPI is set to 96dpi.

Research sources as follows:

Ticket 881696 - Font smoothing
http://www.codeweavers.com/support/tickets/browse/?ticket_id=881696

Ticket 897895 - wine graphics settings, dpi, antialiasing and blurry fonts
http://www.codeweavers.com/support/tickets/browse/?ticket_id=897895

Also, Ask Ubuntu - How do I enable font anti-aliasing in Wine?
http://askubuntu.com/questions/29552/how-do-i-enable-font-anti-aliasing-in-wine

By the way, is you graphics card Nvidia?

Hi, will there be any improvements regarding the font rendering in upcoming Crossover releases? To me these blurry fonts are a no-go to using MS Outlook via Crossover on a regular basis.

And yes, I use a NVidia graphics card (on Ubuntu 12.10).

Quick workaround: remove fonts from Windows bottle (and Microsoft TTF fonts if you have it installed on Linux). Native Linux fonts are not blurry (you may run into Unocide issues, though, because not every font contains full UTF8 charset)

The fonts indeed are not blurry anymore then, that's right, but now they are totally aliased, at least in the message pane. So it looks different now, but still trashy...

Will there be any "real" fix for this issue in the future?

Try playing with antialiasing parameters on xorg side and on wine side. It seems to work acceptable for me. If you fail to find proper combination, I can share what worked best for me.

Thanks for this, removing all the fonts in ~/.cxoffice/<Office Bottle>/drive_c/windows/Fonts helped.
I would be interested in seeing your xorg/wine configuration, as well

I have infinality with rgba enabled xorg-side and

"FontSmoothing"="2"
"FontSmoothingGamma"=dword:00000578
"FontSmoothingOrientation"=dword:00000001
"FontSmoothingType"=dword:0000000

wine-side. I have most of the windows fonts installed, only those that looked ugly due to rendering problems are removed, here is what I left intact:

AGENCYB.TTF BOD_B.TTF CALIBRII.TTF CENTURY.TTF cour.ttf FTLTLT.TTF GOTHICI.TTF LBRITED.TTF MEIRYO.TTC PRISTINA.TTF SNAP__.TTF
AGENCYR.TTF BODCBI.TTF CALIBRI.TTF CHILLER.TTF CURLZ.TTF GABRIOLA.TTF GOTHIC.TTF LBRITEI.TTF MISTRAL.TTF RAGE.TTF STENCIL.TTF
ALGER.TTF BOD_CB.TTF CALIBRIZ.TTF COLONNA.TTF ELEPHNTI.TTF GARABD.TTF GOUDOSB.TTF LBRITE.TTF MOD20.TTF RAVIE.TTF TCBI.TTF
ANTQUABI.TTF BODCI.TTF CALIFB.TTF CONSOLAB.TTF ELEPHNT.TTF GARAIT.TTF GOUDOSI.TTF LCALLIG.TTF MTCORSVA.TTF REFSAN.TTF TCB.TTF
ANTQUAB.TTF BOD_CR.TTF CALIFI.TTF CONSOLAI.TTF ENGR.TTF GARA.TTF GOUDOS.TTF LFAXDI.TTF NIAGENG.TTF REFSPCL.TTF TCCB__.TTF
ANTQUAI.TTF BODI.TTF CALIFR.TTF CONSOLA.TTF ERASBD.TTF GIGI.TTF GOUDYSTO.TTF LFAXD.TTF NIAGSOL.TTF ROCCB.TTF TCCEB.TTF
ARIALNBI.TTF BOD_PSTC.TTF CALISTBI.TTF CONSOLAZ.TTF ERASDEMI.TTF GILBI_.TTF HARLOWSI.TTF LFAXI.TTF OCRAEXT.TTF ROCC.TTF TCCM.TTF
ARIALNB.TTF BOD_R.TTF CALISTB.TTF CONSTANB.TTF ERASLGHT.TTF GILB__.TTF HARNGTON.TTF LFAX.TTF OLDENGL.TTF ROCKBI.TTF TCMI.TTF
ARIALNI.TTF BOOKOSBI.TTF CALISTI.TTF CONSTANI.TTF ERASMD.TTF GILC.TTF HATTEN.TTF LHANDW.TTF ONYX.TTF ROCKB.TTF TCM.TTF
ARIALN.TTF BOOKOSB.TTF CALIST.TTF CONSTAN.TTF FELIXTI.TTF GILI____.TTF HTOWERTI.TTF LSANSDI.TTF OUTLOOK.TTF ROCKEB.TTF TEMPSITC.TTF
ARLRDBD.TTF BOOKOSI.TTF CAMBRIAB.TTF CONSTANZ.TTF FORTE.TTF GILLUBCD.TTF HTOWERT.TTF LSANSD.TTF PALSCRI.TTF ROCKI.TTF Trebucbd.ttf
BASKVILL.TTF BOOKOS.TTF CAMBRIAI.TTF COOPBL.TTF FRABKIT.TTF GILSANUB.TTF IMPRISHA.TTF LSANSI.TTF PAPYRUS.TTF ROCK.TTF trebucbi.ttf
BAUHS93.TTF BRADHITC.TTF CAMBRIA.TTC COPRGTB.TTF FRABK.TTF GIL.TTF INFROMAN.TTF LSANS.TTF PARCHM.TTF SCHLBKBI.TTF trebucit.ttf
BELLB.TTF BRITANIC.TTF CAMBRIAZ.TTF COPRGTL.TTF FRADMCN.TTF GLECB.TTF ITCBLKAD.TTF LTYPEBO.TTF PERBI.TTF SCHLBKB.TTF trebuc.ttf
BELLI.TTF BRLNSB.TTF CANDARAB.TTF CORBELB.TTF FRADMIT.TTF GlobalMonospace.CompositeFont ITCEDSCR.TTF LTYPEB.TTF PERB.TTF SCHLBKI.TTF VINERITC.TTF
BELL.TTF BRLNSDB.TTF CANDARAI.TTF CORBELI.TTF FRADM.TTF GlobalSansSerif.CompositeFont ITCKRIST.TTF LTYPEO.TTF PERI.TTF SCRIPTBL.TTF VIVALDII.TTF
BERNHC.TTF BRLNSR.TTF CANDARA.TTF CORBEL.TTF FRAHVIT.TTF GlobalSerif.CompositeFont JOKERMAN.TTF LTYPE.TTF PERTIBD.TTF SEGOEUIB.TTF VLADIMIR.TTF
BKANT.TTF BROADW.TTF CANDARAZ.TTF CORBELZ.TTF FRAHV.TTF GlobalUserInterface.CompositeFont JUICE.TTF MAGNETOB.TTF PERTILI.TTF SEGOEUII.TTF WINGDNG2.TTF
BODBI.TTF BRUSHSCI.TTF CASTELAR.TTF courbd.ttf FRAMDCN.TTF GLSNECB.TTF KUNSTLER.TTF MAIAN.TTF PER____.TTF SEGOEUI.TTF WINGDNG3.TTF
BOD_BLAI.TTF BSSYM7.TTF CENSCBK.TTF courbi.ttf FREESCPT.TTF GOTHICBI.TTF LATINWD.TTF MATURASC.TTF PLAYBILL.TTF SEGOEUIZ.TTF
BOD_BLAR.TTF CALIBRIB.TTF CENTAUR.TTF couri.ttf FRSCRIPT.TTF GOTHICB.TTF LBRITEDI.TTF MEIRYOB.TTC POORICH.TTF SHOWG.TT

Thanks for sharing this!
For those still having problems with Outlook 2010 font rendering, unchecking "Always use ClearType" also helps.

..and appears that the issue was completely and properly fixed in 12beta.