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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-49562

[REG 5.5->5.6]: HighDPI font rendering on Windows is broken

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Done
    • P1: Critical
    • 5.6.0 RC
    • 5.6.0 Beta
    • GUI: Font handling
    • None
    • Windows 8.1, Msvc 2013
    • a6ef446d4c57b8f3d8a4f4dd85e98baba1583b2d 8a401371ea6baeb827c7fa57befd5e183949fca7

    Description

      Font rendering on Windows suddenly looks bad. That must be a very recent regression. Seems to happen in QPainter based GUI, not in QML.

      There is a runtime warning:

      QWindowsFontEngineDirectWrite::imageForGlyph: CreateAlphaTexture failed ()
      

      qtdiag (no scaling, good text)

      Screens: 2, High DPI scaling: inactive
      # 0 "\\.\DISPLAY1" Depth: 32 Primary: yes
        Geometry: 2880x1620+0+0 Available: 2880x1548+0+0
        Virtual geometry: 4800x2160+0+-540 Available: 4800x2088+0+-540
        2 virtual siblings
        Physical size: 344x193 mm  Refresh: 60 Hz Power state: 0
        Physical DPI: 212.651,213.202 Logical DPI: 192,192
        DevicePixelRatio: 1 Pixel density: 2
        Primary orientation: 2 Orientation: 2 Native orientation: 0 OrientationUpdateMask: 0
      
      # 1 "\\.\DISPLAY2" Depth: 32 Primary: no
        Geometry: 1920x1080+2880+-540 Available: 1920x1080+2880+-540
        Virtual geometry: 4800x2160+0+-540 Available: 4800x2088+0+-540
        2 virtual siblings
        Physical size: 527x296 mm  Refresh: 59 Hz Power state: 0
        Physical DPI: 92.5389,92.6757 Logical DPI: 192,192
        DevicePixelRatio: 1 Pixel density: 2
        Primary orientation: 2 Orientation: 2 Native orientation: 0 OrientationUpdateMask: 0
      

      qtdiag (scaling, bad text)

      Screens: 2, High DPI scaling: active
      # 0 "\\.\DISPLAY1" Depth: 32 Primary: yes
        Geometry: 1440x810+0+0 (native: 2880x1620+0+0) Available: 1440x774+0+0
        Virtual geometry: 3840x1350+0+-540 Available: 3840x1314+0+-540
        2 virtual siblings
        Physical size: 344x193 mm  Refresh: 60 Hz Power state: 0
        Physical DPI: 106.326,106.601 Logical DPI: 96,96 (native: 192,192)
        High DPI scaling factor: 2 DevicePixelRatio: 2 Pixel density: 2
        Primary orientation: 2 Orientation: 2 Native orientation: 0 OrientationUpdateMask: 0
      
      # 1 "\\.\DISPLAY2" Depth: 32 Primary: no
        Geometry: 960x540+2880+-540 (native: 1920x1080+2880+-540) Available: 960x540+2880+-540
        Virtual geometry: 3840x1350+0+-540 Available: 3840x1314+0+-540
        2 virtual siblings
        Physical size: 527x296 mm  Refresh: 59 Hz Power state: 0
        Physical DPI: 46.2694,46.3378 Logical DPI: 96,96 (native: 192,192)
        High DPI scaling factor: 2 DevicePixelRatio: 2 Pixel density: 2
        Primary orientation: 2 Orientation: 2 Native orientation: 0 OrientationUpdateMask: 0
      

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