On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 5:58 AM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]>
wrote:
> For those who see the fuzzy font rendering on Yosemite (probably if you
> don;t have a retina display), how does doing the following affect this?
> In Terminal.app type the following (while Skim is not running!):
>
> defaults write -app Skim AppleFontSmoothing -int 0
>
> You can revert this later by writing:
>
> defaults delete -app Skim AppleFontSmoothing
>
> Another possibility is turning off LCD font smoothing in the Appearance
> system preferences (also restart Skim after doing that). But this does not
> seem to have much effect.
>
> The only thing I can think of for Preview to be really different from Skim
> is either if they use a hidden PDFKit feature (though I can't find any), or
> they force turning off font smoothing in the whole app (people report that
> changing the system font smoothing does not seem to have an effect on
> Preview, while it does on Skim.) I think that would be a very bad
> workaround as it would have side effects (and anyway overriding a user's
> preferences is bad). BTW, does the font in the Preview UI (not the PDF)
> look less smooth, especially if LCD font smoothing is turned on?
>
> Christiaan
>
Thanks. I just tried this. This hidden preference seems to solve the
problem. I also didn't notice much difference with Preview.app for the file
I used.
I have to live with it a little longer, seeing it with different files to
be sure. But for now this looks like an improvement.
-Ivan
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