Re: disabling font smoothing...
Re: disabling font smoothing...
- Subject: Re: disabling font smoothing...
- From: Jeff Harrell <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 02:01:40 -0500
Actually, I was referring to globally disabling antialiased fonts for
your application. As opposed to for a specific text field, or at a
specific font and size, or something like that. Having your entire
application use jaggy fonts would not, in my opinion, be a good thing.
But as I said, it's entirely up to you. I just wanted to throw my two
cents in there because I'm an opinionated bastard.
There is at least one utility out there that will let you disable
antialiased fonts for an entire login session, all applications,
including the Finder. Not sure what it's called, though.
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 01:57 AM, Philip George wrote:
No, no, no. I'm sorry if I gave the impression that I wanted to
disable
them globally. Those api's only disable/enable this feature only for
the
running app.
I agree, globally disabling would be very bad.
- Philip
On 7/15/03 1:27 AM, "Jeff Harrell" <email@hidden> wrote:
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 12:46 AM, Philip George wrote:
I just tried writing a clear explanation of why, but it was really,
really
long. Let's just assume that I have a good reason and go from there.
Okay. I'll just say this, and then I'll get out of your hair.
High-quality antialiased fonts are a very important part of the Mac OS
X user interface. If you're developing an application for wide
release,
disabling antialiased fonts globally would be, in my opinion, a very,
very bad idea.
Not that you asked or anything, but there it is. ;-)
If, on the other hand, you're developing an in-house application for
your own or some limited use, then never mind.
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