Running the script without parameters will enable Clear Type font smoothing. Pass 0, false, off, or disable to turn off Clear Type.
This version requires the ctypes module.
For a version that uses pywin32 see http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578499-enable-clear-type-font-smoothing-on-windows-pywin3/
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Copy to clipboard1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 | import sys
import os
from ctypes import windll
user32 = windll.user32
SPI_SETFONTSMOOTHING = 0x004B # dec 75
SPI_SETFONTSMOOTHINGTYPE = 0x200B # dec 8203
SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE = 0x1
SPIF_SENDCHANGE = 0x2
FE_FONTSMOOTHINGCLEARTYPE = 0x2
is_font_smoothing_enabled = 1
if len(sys.argv) > 1:
if sys.argv[1].lower() not in ['1', 'true', 'on', 'enable']:
is_font_smoothing_enabled = 0
user32.SystemParametersInfoA(SPI_SETFONTSMOOTHING, is_font_smoothing_enabled, 0,
SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE | SPIF_SENDCHANGE)
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Tags: fontsmoothing, windows
