{"id":13,"date":"2008-03-31T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/blog\/2008\/03\/31\/windows-magnifier-disables-cleartype\/"},"modified":"2011-03-03T18:09:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T23:09:02","slug":"magnifier-disables-cleartype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/2008\/03\/31\/magnifier-disables-cleartype\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnifier Disables ClearType"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Windows Accessibility Magnifier (press Win+U to access the Utility Manager) disables XP\u2019s ClearType feature that smooths out screen fonts.<\/p>\n<p>This is with the magnifier off:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/oldblogs\/smarticles\/images\/Windows_Magnifier_Affects_ClearType_(Off).png\" alt=\"Utility Manager dialog with Magnifier off\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is with the magnifier on:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/oldblogs\/smarticles\/images\/Windows_Magnifier_Affects_ClearType_(On).png\" alt=\"Utility Manager dialog with Magnifier on\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And a convenient animation highlighting the difference:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/oldblogs\/smarticles\/images\/Windows_Magnifier_Affects_ClearType.gif\" alt=\"Animation switching between previous two images\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/tag\/computers\/\" rel=\"tag\">Computers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/tag\/windows\/\" rel=\"tag\">Windows<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Windows Accessibility Magnifier (press Win+U to access the Utility Manager) disables XP\u2019s ClearType feature that smooths out screen fonts. This is with the magnifier off: This is with the magnifier on: And a convenient animation highlighting the difference: Computers, Windows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,10],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-computers","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}