| Reporter |
Andrew Serebryansky (andrew.serebryansky)
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| Created | Jul 23, 2010 2:03:43 PM |
| Updated | Jan 2, 2012 12:34:35 PM |
| Priority | Critical |
| Type | Bug |
| Fix versions | 6.1 |
| State | Open |
| Assignee | Serge Baltic (baltic) |
| Subsystem | No subsystem |
| Affected versions | 5.1 |
| Fixed in build | No Fixed in build |
I've been a fan of the Dina programming font for a while now. For those who are unfamiliar, it evolved from Proggy which was modified by a fellow named Jørgen Ibsen to better fit his image of what a programming font needs and released as Dina. Unfortunately, he released it as a .fon file. WPF apparently doesn't render those files anymore (only TrueType and OpenType), and 2010 is using the WPF renderer. So, people suffered under the yoke of Consolas, fuzzy as it was, until two people created TTF versions of Dina. My preference of those two, based on quality of conversion, is this one: http://chrisrickard.blogspot.com/2010/03/dina-font-for-visual-studio-2010.html
So, history complete, here's the issue. The TTF version of Dina that Chris Rickard produced contains only the original 3 point sizes (8, 9, and 10); this is proper as the font was originally a bitmap font and only supported certain sizes. Trying to stretch it would just result in distortion. There also seem to be some issues with rendering the TTF version in things that are not visual studio, for some reason.
So, history complete, here's the issue. The TTF version of Dina that Chris Rickard produced contains only the original 3 point sizes (8, 9, and 10); this is proper as the font was originally a bitmap font and only supported certain sizes. Trying to stretch it would just result in distortion. There also seem to be some issues with rendering the TTF version in things that are not visual studio, for some reason.