On 2002-06-18 19:16 +0200, Thomas Chaffee wrote: > I updated to SR1/10.1.5 and was the obvious recipient of Quartz Text > Smoothing. I just need to know if I am getting ready to have a stroke or > something; as all it has done is make sharp black text grey and blurry. > > The claim is increased readability - to me it is much worse readability.
Smoothing eventually improves screen *reading* for small point sizes -- at about 6, 7, 8 points. > I am on a 500Mhz Titanium, Screen Res at 1152 x 768/millions - using EvX (as > well as word and IE 5.2). Quartz has made everything much tougher to read - > so I have disabled it all. I wonder if 1152 x 768 is the native resolution for that display??? Running TFTs besides native res vastly degrades sharpness overall, and text readability in special. > Not that I want to start a support group for those of us who may not see the > benefit - but can someone explain to me how this is supposed to be better, > or if there is possibly an issue with hw/sw? Compared to handcrafted bitmaps or well-designed TTFs, for the 10, 12 point sizes readability in fact is worse. Bad idea� to use smoothing when the main demand is readability of text-only docs. I believe the idea behind OS X text smoothing (which is a vast improvement over OS9 smoothing) everyplace is -- it can be burdened to the average user, even if he isn't interested into typography at all. -- Thomas Schierle, Munich, Germany PGP key [DSS/DH] 0xA23CDA1D available at various public key servers -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
