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Worse font smoothing
Authored by: Anonymous on Sep 03, '02 10:18:40AM

I think the font anti-aliasing is worse under Jaguar than previous versions of X. On my iBook, the fonts look somehow over-anti-aliased, on any level setting. On my CRT at work, it seems ok, but CRTs blur the detail anyway. I hope fiddling with this new hint on my iBook when I get home tonight solves my problem and restore nice, clean fonts to my otherwise gorgeous Aqua GUI.

Or could it be a fonts mix up on my iBook? I always thought the default font was Lucida Grande for Aqua menus. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated or just confirmation that it is happening on other installations of Jaguar (both of mine are upgrades btw)



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Re: Worse font smoothing
Authored by: dm2243 on Sep 03, '02 11:29:09AM

Go to System Preferences > General and adjust your font smoothing style.



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Worse font smoothing
Authored by: Cowboy_X on Sep 03, '02 10:53:58PM

There's different types of font smoothing for different kinds of displays. Are you using the type specific to LCDs?

On my iMac (crt) display, the font smoothing is <i>much</i> better.



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