Here's an observation I made:
When I zoom in on the b+w screenshot with Ctrl+mwheel, I can see the artifacts of sub-pixel anti-aliasing (i.e. weird colored pixels in otherwise white text). When I do the same for white text in the colored screen shot, those artifacts are no longer there - it's just standard anti-aliasing.
Unfortunately, I have no idea what this means but hopefully it give someone else a clue to the problem.
Good luck, Ian Potter
On Dec 14, 2007, at 4:55 PM, Michael Johnston wrote:
Thanks, but anti-aliasing IS turned on.
The image I posted is not a lo-fi gif of non-anti-aliased text, but is virtually exactly what I see on the screen.
One interesting thing is that turning anti-aliasing OFF changes the font-rendering to match the metrics (ie, the lines become the same length) though not of course the look of the textedit example.
(sorry about threading, I accidentally had digest mode turned on for this list)
Cheerio,
Michael Johnston lastobelus@mac.com
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