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Authored by: maxgraphic on Aug 03, '02 04:44:36PM

There is certainly a lot of confusion about what Quartz Extreme will do. It will have no effect at all on font smoothing, for instance. From Apple's site:

"Here's how it works. Quartz uses the integrated OpenGL technology to convert each window into a texture, then sends it to the graphics card to render on screen."

So Quartz Extreme is all about using a (supported) video card to do the heavy lifting of displaying windows, which can interact with other windows in complex ways because of transparency. But the job of drawing the window in the first place, creating that bitmap, will still be done the way it is today.

I also wanted to point out that checking "Disable Quartz text smoothing" makes Word (and other Office apps) go back to using plain-old QuickDraw to render text, which indeed is antialiased, but not as well as Quartz. This isn't a Silk issue.

One last thing, just to be picky: a point can become "moot," but not "mute," unless you mean it has become silent.



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