Archived:Rich text editor does not support anti-aliased fonts (Known Issue)

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Platform(s): S60 3rd Edition
S60 3rd Edition, FP1

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Created: User:Technical writer 1 (30 Aug 2007)

Last edited: hamishwillee (19 Jun 2012)

Description

Anti-aliasing for scalable fonts can be set by using
   TFontStyle::SetBitmapType(EAntiAliasedGlyphBitmap);
or
   TOpenFontSpec::SetBitmapType(EAntiAliasedGlyphBitmap);
Anti-aliased fonts can be used when drawing text to a graphics context, as well as in labels. However, the setting is ignored when applied to a rich text editor (CEikRichTextEditor).

Solution

Create a CCharFormatLayer object and to set that as the global character format using SetGlobalCharFormat(). This will enable anti-aliasing globally for the editor.
    iMyCharFormatLayer = CCharFormatLayer::NewL();    // iMyCharFormatLayer is a class member
    RichText()->SetGlobalCharFormat(iMyCharFormatLayer);
Also remember to delete the CCharFormatLayer object in the destructor.