Ishiyoshi Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 For your convenience, please read this guide: A Guide to Enable ClearType Antialiasing for SonicStage for further details. Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 For your convenience, please read this guide: A Guide to Enable ClearType Antialiasing for SonicStage for further details. Cheers. Brilliant! This is something I had hoped was possible for a long time, but never quite figured out how to implement. Thanks!Edit: Can confirm that this works well. Arial also seems to work ok as the default font. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zerodB Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 I thought ClearType was a system-wide setting. Obviously not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishiyoshi Posted February 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 Brilliant! This is something I had hoped was possible for a long time, but never quite figured out how to implement. Thanks!Edit: Can confirm that this works well. Arial also seems to work ok as the default font.You are most welcome, Richard. Thanks for the report. I suspect most generic or the usual fonts will work just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Otaku Posted March 27, 2006 Report Share Posted March 27, 2006 MS UI Gothic is not present on my system, nor in my rather large [uninstalled] font collection. Does it come with MS Office [which I have refused to reinstall since OpenOffice became stable enough to use] or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishiyoshi Posted March 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2006 MS UI Gothic is not present on my system, nor in my rather large [uninstalled] font collection. Does it come with MS Office [which I have refused to reinstall since OpenOffice became stable enough to use] or something?I believe MS Gothic (along with MS Mincho) comes with the East Asian Language Pack for WinXP. If you need MS Gothic in particular, drop me a pm and I will send it over separately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrain Posted March 28, 2006 Report Share Posted March 28, 2006 http://www.kanjistep.com/en/misc/howto.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishiyoshi Posted March 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2006 http://www.kanjistep.com/en/misc/howto.htmlThanks for the link, Adrian. For those who needs MS Gothic and MS Mincho, download from the link provided by Adrian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aethyrmaster Posted March 28, 2006 Report Share Posted March 28, 2006 So, wait a minute. What exactly is this supposed to do? Is there a faster way to perform this hack than to edit every XML file one at a time? Does it really matter if I have a CRT?I'm confused....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishiyoshi Posted March 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2006 So, wait a minute. What exactly is this supposed to do?ClearType Antialiasing significantly improves readability on color LCD monitors with digital interface - especially those in laptops and high-quality flat desktop displays. By default, SonicStage does not have ClearType Antialiasing - thus the guide to enable it manually.Is there a faster way to perform this hack than to edit every XML file one at a time?No. Unfortunately, you will have to edit each and every XML file I have outlined within the guide.Does it really matter if I have a CRT?Readability on CRT screens should witness decent improvement with ClearType Antialiasing as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyman50000 Posted April 2, 2006 Report Share Posted April 2, 2006 Does this work in 3.4?Because I tried it and it wouldn't load afterwardsIf it does, can you list what xml files you have to edit please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishiyoshi Posted April 2, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2006 Does this work in 3.4?Yes, it does.Because I tried it and it wouldn't load afterwardsIf it does, can you list what xml files you have to edit please.Please read the instructions thoroughly - especially point #1 and #2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hpmoon Posted April 9, 2006 Report Share Posted April 9, 2006 Yes, it does.Please read the instructions thoroughly - especially point #1 and #2.Thanks for the effort, Ishiyoshi, but I think the confusion stems from your instruction to edit "all relevant" XML files, meaning those that have <font> tags in them. You will find that a few of the XML files have several dozens of shorter sections bounded by <font> tags, thus your instructions may or may not have meant to reach that far -- strictly interpreting your words, though, they do.I recommend that you re-word the instructions accordingly. Also, since so many people are using this, why not list the files requiring modification? No big deal. I'll do it if you're not willing (though you started this thread). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hpmoon Posted April 9, 2006 Report Share Posted April 9, 2006 Very few of us have any interest in installing a Japanese font, per the instructions in this topic.As the much better alternative, install any one of the following six new ClearType fonts that will be included in the next OS:You will find the fonts here. They are English. Note that Consolas is the only non-proportional font face. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishiyoshi Posted April 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 Thanks for the effort, Ishiyoshi, but I think the confusion stems from your instruction to edit "all relevant" XML files, meaning those that have <font> tags in them. You will find that a few of the XML files have several dozens of shorter sections bounded by <font> tags, thus your instructions may or may not have meant to reach that far -- strictly interpreting your words, though, they do.I recommend that you re-word the instructions accordingly. Also, since so many people are using this, why not list the files requiring modification? No big deal. I'll do it if you're not willing (though you started this thread).I thought it's cystal clear even from the first few words in point #1 (Edit all XML files within "C:\Program Files\Sony\SonicStage\Data\XML") Well, I will re-word "every relevant" to "every" instead for your convenience.Very few of us have any interest in installing a Japanese font, per the instructions in this topic.As I have stated very clearly in the guide: "Note: It is advisable to use MS UI Gothic for proper display of text within the UI. (most generic or the usual fonts will work as well).)" I apologize for writing the guide from a Japanese perspective. But it's clear that you are free and should venture to your preferred fonts - if you have no interest in using Asian based fonts, go forth with whatever pleases you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky191 Posted May 25, 2006 Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 I downloaded a trial of UltraEdit-32 which allowed me to replace <font> with <font><AntiAliasQuality>2</AntiAliasQuality> across all *.xml files in that dir with one find and replace. Might save someone a lot of time. I switched the font to arial myself. Not sure if I like the look though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted May 25, 2006 Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 I downloaded a trial of UltraEdit-32 which allowed me to replace <font> with <font><AntiAliasQuality>2</AntiAliasQuality> across all *.xml files in that dir with one find and replace. Might save someone a lot of time. I switched the font to arial myself. Not sure if I like the look though. Nice tip Sparky! I actually use UltraEdit quite a bit at work, but hadn't actually thought of doing this. Good job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky191 Posted May 25, 2006 Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 I thought XMLSPY might be able to do it, but I don't see it as option. Those file editors are soooo handy for these kinda things. If I had time I'd write a little app to do it, make it easy to experiment with different fonts. But its kinda something you don't do very often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted May 25, 2006 Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 I thought XMLSPY might be able to do it, but I don't see it as option. Those file editors are soooo handy for these kinda things. If I had time I'd write a little app to do it, make it easy to experiment with different fonts. But its kinda something you don't do very often. Ultra-Edit is absolutely superb at doing search and replaces, and search and replace within columns etc.. XMLSpy is also very good, but I only use it occasionally - I'm not sure it can do the search in directory... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishiyoshi Posted May 25, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 Just absolutely brilliant, Sparky191! Thanks for sharing this tip with the community. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielbb90 Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Is there anychance of anyone posting a zip of all the modified xml files?That would save alot of time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky191 Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 I went back to the defaults, after I reinstalled SS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vovobiscuit Posted October 5, 2006 Report Share Posted October 5, 2006 Here are the edited XML files, as requested a while back by danielbb90: [attachmentid=2054]These files have been copied directly from my successfully tweaked SonicStage 4.0 installation. I don't know how they would go in earlier versions. In any case, be sure to make a backup of your existing files before overwriting them!Thank you, Ishiyoshi, for posting this tip. xml.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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