[TxMt] Help! Font rendering suddenly degraded. Have deleted ATS caches.

[Ciarán Walsh]

Perhaps Anti Aliasing is off? It’s a checkbox at the bottom of the  
Fonts & Colors section in the Preferences.

On 14 Dec 2007, at 15:28, Michael Johnston wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've happily used textmate for about 2 years now and I love it --  
> thank you macromates for a great tool.
>
> Last night in the middle of a work session the font rendering of  
> textmate suddenly degraded. It now looks like this:
> (I use QuickType mono)
>
> http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?7d959429cb.gif
>
> This is what it looked like before, more or less, and still looks  
> like in textedit (but without syntax coloring of course:
>
> http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?42baf8bee8.gif
>
> Has anyone encountered this issue before? What things can I try to  
> get back to normal?
>
> All fonts are affected, not just QuickType mono
>
> 1. Running 10.5 on a macbook pro
>
> 2. Happened during a time machine backup. I mention this because I  
> had problems with ATS server and the font caches while getting Time  
> machine backups working, where ats would start consuming a whole  
> core for hours and have to be killed. This was a week ago, and that  
> problem seemed to go away after deleting all Cache folders, turning  
> off spotlight indexing & backing up of Cache folders etc.
>
> 3. I've already deleted the ATS caches & rebooted as per the wiki page
>
> I'm in a bit of a panic -- have a lot of work to do in two projects  
> and doing it with my most important productivity tool crippled is a  
> terrifying prospect :/
>
> (I'm sure there are going to be people who don't think the first  
> text is much harder to read than the second, but it is for me and  
> the font rendering is one of the top 5 reasons I use a mac, so this  
> is not intended to open that whole discussion. I just want to know  
> how to get back what I'm used to looking at 8 hours a day :))
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael Johnston
> lastobelus at mac.com
>
>
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