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Re: Disable font smoothing...
Authored by: michno on Aug 02, '02 10:00:41AM

The "Disable Quartz text smoothing" option came with the SR1 update. It exists in all Office apps (in PowerPoint too, under the View tab).

Disabling it has the further positive effect of making text in Postscript type 1 fonts readable again. With the smoothing option enabled Office apps are unable to correctly read the kerning tables in type 1 font files.



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Re: Disable font smoothing...
Authored by: macandrew on Aug 02, '02 12:36:25PM

It's worth mentioning that "Disable Quartz text smoothing" disables an option that only became available on 10.1.5. Previous versions of OS X did not make Quartz antialiasing routines available to Carbon apps (only Cocoa apps). Presumably the speed difference comes from mixing two graphics APIs (Carbonized Quickdraw and Quartz); hopefully this will be addressed in Jaguar; ditto for proper support of PS Type 1 fonts.



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Re: Disable font smoothing...
Authored by: SuzS on Sep 30, '04 03:18:20PM

Can someone explain how to turn off font smoothing in Word 2004? I have tried Tinkertools and after working for awhile, it stopped working. I am using the Student Teacher version and don't see the option mentioned here to turn it off in the Word app itself. I need it off for fonts of 12 point as this is what I edit in and I find it hard to read on my screen. I use an IMAC with a flat screen. Thanks



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