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Showing all glyphs in PowerShell

My version is 5.1 but the Lucida Console font is not able to show the full range of glyphs for most, if not all, Unicode characters. Isn't PowerShell making use of the installed fonts in the Windows ...
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Bad font rendering with some applications and good rendering in others, Windows 10

I've switched from my laptop screen to a bigger monitor (1920 x 1080) that I connect with hdmi. I've set dimensions of windows and everything at 125% in screen settings. After set up the ClearType, ...
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Confirm HDD/SSD bottleneck

I have pretty beast of a PC at work and I often use it for editing and post production mainly in in After Effects and Premiere. During renders in both Premiere and AFX (or media encoder, mixed ...
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"Nr" rendered as Nr. in LibreOffice (Calc) and/or "Linux"

I created a LibreOffice spreadsheet in Windows. One cell contains the String "Nr.". When I open this file in Linux, "No" with superscript underlined o is displayed. As I type this question, I guess ...
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Game renders a frame only if I alt-tab

Most games run just fine, but some games only render one frame if I alt-tab away from them and then alt-tab back to them. Some other games additionally render one frame per mouse click. Changing the ...
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Visual studio 2015 renders some characters as squares (tofus)

I've got a recent problem with visual studio after updating windows 10 to the anniversary update. Weirdly, it happens on the same characters, but not anytime, sometimes it doesn't; sometimes not.
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Running laptop at full power w/heatsink but w/o fan

Background: I'm running an i5 2410m processor with tdp of 35W in an environment that occasionally reaches 38 degrees . The CPU heatsink is installed however the fan controller is dead and thus does ...
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How to Disable Direct Write in Windows 10?

I find ClearType, Direct Write, etc. font rendering systems not very aesthetically pleasing. So I download a free software called MacType on my Windows 10. The problem is that it does not render ...
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Using graphics card with no video output?

I've been looking into upgrading my graphics card for a while now, and during my searches I've noticed a couple of them that don't have any sort of video output other than power and PCI. I was ...
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trying to join my computers in a more efficient way

i know there have several answers about how to link 2 computers together so they can share processing power. this seems to be way beyond what i need and i was hoping someone with more hardware and ...
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Font showing in font display panel but does not render correctly in Power Point

I've recently installed a font on a second PC (works perfectly on my other PC) but while I can see it in the fonts panel and select it - it renders as some kind of old typewriter font. Any idea why? ...
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Does the operation system interfere with browser rendering?

This might sound silly and really common. I'm trying to convince my boss that if I use Google Chrome on Windows, it won't look the same as it does running on OSX or a Linux distribution. Does the ...
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Windows 8 font rendering looks weird on CRT monitor

I am using a CRT monitor, for various reasons... But I am having a particular problem: some smaller text is being rendered in a very bizarre manner, for example the "C" on the first line of this text, ...
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Is there a way to render LaTEX/MathJax for Slack Chatting client (web or app)?

I have a workgroup that uses the Slack chatting app/website/destop version to communicate, and the desire to send usable mathematical expressions across to friends is something we'd like to do there. ...
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How can I fix ugly non-ClearType rendering of webfonts in Firefox without disabling them?

I'm having some problems with font rendering in Firefox. I have disabled ClearType/Font Smoothing in Windows 7 because I don't like smoothed fonts (unchecked "Smooth Edges of Screen Fonts" in in the ...
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Handbrake Video Encode Tool File Preview Location

So I added a file to render. I didn't put destination folder. Then i clicked preview and it started to render. After the it done rendering it open my video in VLC. I watched it and i closed it. So ...
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ClearType Text Tuner: what exactly do all steps do? [duplicate]

In Windows, when adjusting ClearType text, following the option to turn on/off ClearType & ensuring the monitor is set to native resolution, one is supposed to follow 5 steps. I've already tried ...
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Why is Chrome rendering Google logo incorrectly?

For several months now Chrome has consistently rendered the google logo as follows, top is as Chrome renders, bottom is as IE and piant.net render: What's strange is that this is only occurring on ...
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Does image quality deteriorate in video if rendered with higher bitrate?

Let's say I want to render a music video with a still image on it (1920x1080) resolution, and I know if I were to decrease video bitrate, the image quality would deteriorate, how about if I would ...
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Putty + line drawing = weirdness [duplicate]

Connecting to any debian installation via PuTTY results in a very strange situation: I can have correct display of line drawing, but not for all programs. In particular Midnight Commander and ...
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Google Chrome Rendering

My Google Chrome (version 40.0.2214.93 m) can't render some fonts. Icon packages such as font-awesome are shows as a blank square, and monospaced fonts such as courier-new are shown as Arial. This is ...
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Sony Vegas Pro 12 - After rending problems - It leaves black spaces in the video

The thing is that the whole video's format is "lying down". Which means that the width is longer than the height. So far so good! But then I want to add some videos that I filmed with my phone. And ...
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How to force Windows to use cleartype for all font sizes

I have some large Excel spreadsheets and often have to zoom out to have an overall view of them. However as I zoomed out, the characters are rendered in a smaller font, and until some point size it ...
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Improve pdf render speed

What hardware resources (more/better CPU, RAM, or GPU) should be increased to improve pdf render speeds? We need to keep on flipping to next-page of pdf at the rate of 10 page/s and the pdfs contain ...
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How can I enable ClearType fonts in Firefox?

Is there a way to enable ClearType font rendering in Firefox tabs, regardless of the O/S settings? Some pages look awful on FF, while look much better in Internet Explorer. My understanding is that ...
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Chrome 37 - BGR subpixel text rendering

I am lucky to have a screen with BGR subpixel layout. With lucky I mean that Google Chrome 37 now forced RGB subpixel rendering with their recently added DirectWrite text rendering method. Text is ...
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How to fix this graphic error with Chrome 36 on Mac OS 10.9.4?

Time and time again Chrome 36 on Mac OS 10.9.4 seems to have problems to render the graphics properly (see image below). This distortion is visible only for some time. As soon as the contents change ...
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Why are videos rendered by the cpu instead of the gpu?

Well I know this might sound like a pretty stupid question, but I couldn't find an answer using google, so yeah ... So, I know there are techniques like OpenCL and CUDA, but why is, by default, the ...
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OpenGL rendering affects CPU

I have a problem with an app that is slowed down significantly when an openFrameworks based app is launched. Both apps use little cpu and memory, so i don't think there's a bottleneck. I can ...
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Enable 'Show paint rectangles' without having Developer Tools open in Google Chrome

Google Chrome offers an option to visually highlight repainted areas using a Developer Tools option called 'Show paint rectangles'. It is described here: https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/...
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How does distributed computing work?

I heard a 3D modeller say that when he renders a scene he uses multiple machines to do it because simply the hardware is not powerful enough and he is using the collective computational power of more ...
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Windows 8.1 Swing (Java) applications text rendering

The other day, I searched for a free UML editor tool, and as it turns out the best of them are implemented using the popular Swing framework, in Java. As it turns out, Windows 8.1 has some serious ...
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Can camtasia record a new video while rendering

It is rendering an old video and is taking up too much time. Is it possible to record a new video while this one is rendering?
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Is running a game at a higher resolution more stressful on CPU/GPU full screen or windowed? [closed]

When running a game at a high resolution (1920 by 1200) is it more stressful on CPU/GPU when it is full screen (1920 by 1200), or windowed (e.g. 1280 by 1024)? What about if another window is open ...
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How to display .dcm images using GPURenderDemo and vtkGDCMImageReader

I am getting a problem in executing GPURenderDemo file in VTK volume rendering. I am using vtkGDCMReader to read the image. On running the code it gives an error "exited with code 1"
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3D rendering on a budget; What to upgrade? [closed]

I just built a PC for my wife; i3-4130 / B85 / 8GB RAM / Radeon 7730 1GB GDDR5 / 120GB Intel 330 SSD / 22" HP IPS Monitor. She's an interior designer and she uses this software, 20-20 Design. She's ...
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How to run Fujitsu P27T-7 LED monitor in its not native resolution and have perfect fonts rendering

My problem is completely opposite to anything I could find as I need to run my monitor in its NOT native resolution and have perfect font rendering. I recently got myself Ultra HD 2560x1440 27 inch ...
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What can cause such Firefox rendering errors? And how to fix this

I have a poblem with my Firefox, especially on stack exchange pages. Lot of elements are not visible (mainly text), but visible after hovering mouse. Scrolling page causes some random duplications (...
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What causes the Windows XP lagscreen render fail?

We all know the situation when a program or the OS itself froze and the only thing you can do is paint with the millions of dialogs that the system renders. I am talking about this (demo here): Why ...
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Transparent texture rendered as black

I'm trying to render a scene with transparent png. The scene is actually imported from a .obj file (with another .mtl file), which should technically applies the transparency for me. ^ It does ...
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Modern alternative to POVray scene description languade [closed]

in short: Do you know something for generative scripting of 3D scene and rendering it like POVray, but with more modern rendering technology ( Metropolis-light transport, GPGPU, ambient occlusion ), ...
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Webpage fails to render correctly on same version of Chrome but different version of Windows

Cubes 3D The above link works perfectly on Windows 7: Chrome Version 26.0.1410.43 m But on XP SP3: Chrome Version 26.0.1410.43 m the cubes are reduced to displaying a flattened number 2. This ...
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Google Chrome and Helvetica Neue, big bug

I'm experiencing a big, bad bug only with Google Chrome. I have all the Helvetica fonts installed on my Windows 7 computer. (Helvetica, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica Neue LT, and so on.. it's like more ...
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Windows XP Blocked Out Text

My Mum's old Windows XP laptop is displaying very strangely, with fonts in both Windows dialogues, applications and even the start menu appearing blocked out in rectangles of solid colour. (See ...
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xHTML renders locally but when on a web site it downloads it as a file when using Chrome, or Opera

Below is the xHTML listing: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"[]&...
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What alternative browser rendering engines exist for Linux/UNIX?

Now that Opera has switched to WebKit too, on Linux I found only WebKit or Gecko based browsers. The only other one was KDE/Konqueror's KHTML and on Windows IE's Trident. Are there any other ...
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Firefox flips to the window behind it when it stops responding

I have Firefox 18.0.2 on Windows 7, but I think that this was happening in the previous version as well. If I have the browser open, normally I have one Firefox window with 15 tabs ("primary") or ...
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Why is rendering multibyte character sequences unbelievably slow?

About a week ago I realized that the file list in µTorrent would hang for less than a second whenever a file with a long Japanese file name was visible. I found it curious, but I didn't really have ...
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Weird rendering of font Helvetica in Chrome

It started happening after I installed the Helvetica font on my system (at least I think that was the trigger). I tried to install Helvetica on my Ubuntu 12.10 system but the font viewer crashed ...
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Program to render large SVG files

I am trying to view a large SVG files (about 20 MB). I tried using squiggle from batik, but it has been rendering for at least 20 minutes without producing any results. A similar file about half the ...
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