Poor Render of Fonts in LabVIEW

[ChrisReed]

Why do Fonts render so poorly in LabVIEW 2015 compared to say MS Word 2010 and is there a way to improve the text quality?

I already know about the well known issue of LabVIEW font sizes not being standard (see this link)

https://decibel.ni.com/content/groups/ui/blog/2013/06/07/font-sizes-in-labview--conversion-utility-v...

But even taking this into account, text in a LabVIEW Front Panel Indicator (in this case a Table Cell) looks very blocky compared to MS Word.  Is this because MS Office uses anti-aliasing?  Can this be done in LabVIEW?  Below are 1:1 screen snapshots of a Table cell.

Thanks Chris

[aflojo]

Hi ChrisReed,

It looks like they had a similar conversation here:

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Turn-on-font-antialiasing-for-front-panel/td-p/980488

Let me know if you have any follow up questions that they didnt anwser.

[Sam_Sharp]

Your display scaling setting can also have an impact on how fonts are displayed/rendered - everything (including the title bar) looked horribly pixelated on W10 / LV2013 with a display scaling greater than 100%.

[ChrisReed]

I tried the idea of using the Clear Type setting and it does make a big difference (see image below - looks even better when done on a whole Table).

That's OK, however my application needs to be installed on Window XP and 7 computers so I would have to programmatically set the Clear Type setting by changing the registry (see link below), but it would be nicer if LabVIEW had some in-built anti-aliasing like MS Word.  Perhaps that will be in version 2016

http://superuser.com/questions/367230/how-to-turn-off-cleartype-and-use-whole-pixel-anti-aliasing-in...

Chris