Cleartype going titsup

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I've got a simple painting routine for a control I made, it calls the TextRenderer class directly, like so:

 

using(Font fText = new Font("MS Sans Serif", 10))

using(Font fTitl = new Font(fText, FontStyle.Regular)) { // FontStyle.Bold)) {

 

// g.DrawString(e.Participant.Name, fText, SystemBrushes.ControlText, rCapName);

// g.DrawString(e.Name , fTitl, SystemBrushes.ControlText, rCapTitl);

TextRenderer.DrawText(g, e.Participant.Name, fText, rCapName, SystemColors.ControlText, TextFormatFlags.Left);

TextRenderer.DrawText(g, e.Name , fTitl, rCapTitl, SystemColors.ControlText, TextFormatFlags.Left);

}

Yet when ClearType is enabled the text comes out with an ugly bold appearance, but turn ClearType off ("Standard" anti-aliasing is fine) and it looks fine.

 

ClearType is on the left, Standard on the right. What's up?

 

 

http://www.w3bdevil.com/misc/ClearTypeBork.png

 

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