Macbyte does not work with Visual Studio 2012 on Windows 8

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Macbyte does not work with Visual Studio 2012 on Windows 8

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VisualStudio newer than 2008 is created with WPF technology which uses a 
individual private font engine other than GDI32.
since mactype only support GDI32 rendering, you won't get vs2010 rendered so 
far.

however, there are parts of vs2010 that is web based or win32 based, you can 
render these parts.

Original comment by [email protected] on 26 Oct 2012 at 8:17

• Changed state: Accepted

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Is there a chance that we can upgrade MacType to rasterize the font in 
VS2010/VS2012/VS2013 ? we love MacType, and can't wait to have it on VS.

I posted the suggestion and question to VS team: 
http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/537271
2-allow-custom-font-rasterize-in-visual-studio-text-

Hope they response, or we have some ideas how to do it in VS text editor.

Original comment by [email protected] on 17 Jan 2014 at 3:33

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For VS2012+ you could try this addon:
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/7aafa2ea-8c54-4da8-922e-d26bf01851
4d

Not the panacea, but at least it can disable font hinting.

Original comment by 13.beta2 on 19 Jun 2014 at 6:02

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I think this is going to be an even bigger issue now that Microsoft's released 
a free version of Visual Studio.  It's an excellent dev IDE but looking at code 
all day with it's hideous font rendering kills almost all of the appeal.  I 
really hope this is something the MacType team can fix.

Original comment by [email protected] on 24 Nov 2014 at 9:55

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Came in here exactly because of the free Visual Studio release and I'm really 
surprised that this is a two-year-old issue.  Has there been any progress?

Original comment by [email protected] on 25 Nov 2014 at 9:41