On 27 Jul 2005 at 23:13, Aaron Sherber wrote: > At 10:54 PM 07/27/2005, David W. Fenton wrote: > >So, you've just discovered that Mac anti-aliasing is better than > >Windows? > > David, do you enjoy picking fights? Because now you're just being > silly. This isn't a question of better anti-aliasing -- . . .
It looks like one to me. > . . . the Win > screenshot looks like total crap. . . . It's more readable on my screen because the Mac fonts are anti- aliased into blurriness. > . . . If this had to do with > anti-aliasing, then the characters in the Win screenshot would at > least have the same shape and size but would look more pixillated > around the edges. But they're not pixillated, they're just chunky. Well, it's clearly a different font, but that's probably, shock of shocks, because Windows and OS X don't have the same system fonts. > >Doesn't sound lame to me. Mac has significant differences in its > font >rendering technologies, and always has, and that's one of the > reasons >graphics people prefer the Mac. > > I'm saying it's lame that they weren't able to come up with an > alternate solution for Windows that looks better than it does. Maybe > this is easier on the Mac, but I'm sure there are lots of things in > Finale that are easier on one platform than on the other, and yet they > still have to find a way to make things work the same on both > platforms. The Windows screen shots you've provided are easier to read than the Mac screenshot from the website. That's all I have to go on. And, personally, I think anti-aliasing at small font sizes is a bad thing, anyway. Did you suggest to MakeMusic that they provide their own display font for this purpose? That's the only way they could possibly avoid a cross-platform difference of this nature. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
