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Kaspar commented on my post Office Adopts New Windows Display Technology “I always wondered why the text in OneNote 2013 looks so much better than Word 2013.” Curious, I typed some math into Word and OneNote on my 3200 x 1800 resolution Samsung ATIV laptop and compared them. The two displays looked pretty similar! For finer examination, I ran the zoomin.exe applet and looked at the pixels of a math italic b in the equation

The character stems in Word were black with varying shades of gray pixels on the edges, while the stems in OneNote had varying hues of colored pixels on the edges as you see here

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  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2014
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  • Anonymous
    August 29, 2014
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  • Anonymous
    August 29, 2014
    Thanks for the feedback. I'll pass it along

  • Anonymous
    November 01, 2014
    Kasper: Chrome now has DirectWrite as well AFAIK. ☺

  • Anonymous
    November 10, 2014
    Please bring back ClearType in Office 2013

  • Anonymous
    December 08, 2014
    Glad I read this post.  No way I'll upgrade in that case. I need to be able to rad/write/edit documents for many hours a day.  I'm in a field where content matters, not the color of the virtual paper. Looks like what Office needs is a word processing program!

  • Anonymous
    March 24, 2015
    I'm glad I use LibreOffice and Word 2010, because they use the subpixel rendering Word 2013 doesn't have. If subpixel rendering taxes the hardware, why not put it as an option to reenable it? Via service pack, maybe? This way, we can try the best option without having to buy extra (and expensive) hardware. Off-topic: I like Word 2013 interface against Word 2010 (used the trial edition), very smooth, but still lacks true OpenDocument Format support, as it doesn't open the Flat variants (pure xml not packaged on a zip container). Also Word could have page styles, as LibreOffice Writer does, it would ease the formatting of documents intended for online and offline reading when exported to PDF.

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    April 30, 2015
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    March 15, 2017
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