on 05/14/2004 05:54 PM, Dan Crevier at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Scott Haneda wrote: > >> on 05/14/2004 04:41 PM, Mark Goodman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >>> Scott, it's not your vision. I have 20/20 vision and I also had to bump up >>> the font size so I could read it. 9 point anti-aliased type is just too >>> small to read on a 19" LCD display with a fixed resolution of 1280 x 1024. >> >> >> Well, good to know it is not my vision going :-) >> I just went and tried out a few other email apps to see how they all dealt >> with this behavior, the 3 others I tested were able to show my nice plain >> monaco 9. >> >> I am just not willing to bump it up to 10 point, since it is still tough to >> read and just looks blurry to me, for as much time as I spend in email, 9 >> point was always just right for me the way it was in the past. > > As part of our switch to the ATSUI APIs, due to some limitations in > ATSUI, we could not display non-anti-aliased Monaco with the correct > spacing and also show anti-aliased text correctly. I tried very hard to > find a way to do this, and talked to the ATSUI developers at Apple, but > I couldn't come up with a solution. I don't know of any workaround.
Hmm, I have to say, this is a real bummer for me, I don't quite know what I am going to do. I wonder if I may ask you a question... I do not know the details of what ATSUI is, other than a quick google on it. I am curious how other apps are able to deal with this issue. For example, TextEdit, which has Unicode support, can do a Monaco 9 with no smoothing and it looks just like it did in E-rage X. I have to assume they use ATSUI as well? Safari's view source mode has no trouble with this also. Other apps, for which I have no idea how the ATSUI stuff works, also are able to pull this off. Just curious. Can someone offer any other font suggestions to me to test out that would perhaps allow me to get closer to my desired display, as it is now, I downgraded cause of this, I really would love to upgrade, at this point, I am kinda stuck. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 http://www.newgeo.com Fax: 313.557.5052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novato, CA U.S.A. -- 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/>
