10.3: Remove font anti-aliasing in Panther

Nov 05, '03 09:24:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

This site already has a tip for disabling (or increasing the threshold for) font anti-aliasing under Jaguar. It didn't work in Panther for me. An updated version (which I saw on macdevcentral) has a slightly different command syntax:

defaults write -g AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 128
Being an Apple newbie I can't explain exactly what this is doing or why it works compared to the old version. However, I've been searching for a way to increase the threshold since I got my 12" powerbook with Panther and this worked.

[robg adds: According to the man page for defaults, the -g option is a synonym for the global domain, which is what's referenced in the first hint. So I'm not sure why one method would work and the other wouldn't -- can anyone clarify?]

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