Thank you Paul. It was the latter; Quartz text smoothing got turned on somehow. Turning it off fixed it.
-- M. Tamer Ozsu University of Waterloo > From: Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 07:23:03 -0700 > To: Entourage Mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Entourage fonts > > On 6/28/03 4:48 AM, "M. Tamer �zsu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Could someone please tell me the default font for the "List items" in >> Entourage X? When I started it this morning, the mail listings and the file >> list looked horrible. When I checked the fonts (which I had not changed), it >> showed Verdona 10, which really looks quite bad. I don't know how this >> happened all of a sudden, but I'd very much like to recover the original >> look. > > Verdana 10 is what I have (just possibly the default is 9, and I increased > it, but I think it's 10). But I'd guess that some installation or other > reset your System Preferences/General/Turn off text smoothing for font sizes > X and smaller/ to 10 instead of 9 or 8. Or perhaps vice-versa. At least on > my machine, list views look much better with text smoothing (anti-aliasing) > ON. But maybe you feel differently. I think the system default may be 10 and > I've set it to 9 precisely to get anti-aliasing in Entourage lists. Anyway, > play around with that setting rather than the Entourage font setting. > > Another possibility is that in Entourage, General/Preferences/Turn on Quartz > text smoothing/ got turned off (or on). Check that setting as well. > > -- > Paul Berkowitz > > -- > 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/> > -- 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/>
