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Re: forcing text smoothing for static text controls



On 11/30/04 4:46 PM, R. Scott Thompson didst favor us with:

> 
> On Nov 30, 2004, at 3:31 PM, Jim Matthews wrote:
> 
>> I have some static text controls that look bad when the "Turn off text
>> smoothing for font sizes X and smaller." setting in the Appearance (on
>> Panther) or General (on Jaguar) panel of System Preferences is set too
>> high.  Is there a way to force text smoothing to be used for these
>> controls, regardless of the setting in System Preferences?

When I think the font smoothing threshold is set too high, I'll change it.

> My advice would be that you shouldn't override the user's settings that
> way.  Even if they look bad to you with the antialiasing off, they may
> not look bad to someone who has a vision problem.
> 
I agree. When I configure settings like this, the font and size for incoming
e-mail messages, and so on, I want those settings respected. When other
people think they know what I'll like better than I do, it's rather
annoying.

Larry

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