{"id":19,"date":"2005-12-23T02:58:20","date_gmt":"2005-12-23T02:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mushroom-ebooks.com\/2005\/12\/23\/cleartype-for-ebook-reading\/"},"modified":"2014-06-20T18:58:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T18:58:00","slug":"cleartype-for-ebook-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mushroom-ebooks.com\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/cleartype-for-ebook-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"ClearType for eBook reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got my new laptop yesterday, but I wasn&#8217;t happy with the font display. I turned on ClearType, but it wasn&#8217;t much better. So I did a search on Google, and found a ClearType Tuner provided by Microsoft to make your fonts look great. This is highly recommended, especially for reading ebooks on a PC or Laptop. It only appears to work with Windows XP, but there may be similar features or utilities for other platforms. Here is a snippet from the first step of the process (there are only three easy steps):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/typography\/cleartype\/tuner\/Step1.aspx\">ClearType Tuner Step 1: Turn on Windows XP ClearType<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With Windows XP, ClearType delivers improved font display quality over traditional forms of font smoothing or anti-aliasing. ClearType improves readability on color LCD displays with a digital interface, such as those in laptops and high-quality flat panel displays. Readability on CRT screens can also be somewhat improved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Technorati Tags: ebooks, e-books, xp, readability<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my new laptop yesterday, but I wasn&#8217;t happy with the font display. I turned on ClearType, but it wasn&#8217;t much better. So I did a search on Google, and found a ClearType Tuner provided by Microsoft to make your fonts look great. This is highly recommended, especially for reading ebooks on a PC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-technical"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mushroom-ebooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mushroom-ebooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mushroom-ebooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mushroom-ebooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mushroom-ebooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mushroom-ebooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mushroom-ebooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mushroom-ebooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mushroom-ebooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}