John Siracusa wrote:
On 5/14/04 7:01 PM, Scott Haneda wrote:
First, the major show stopper for me. In Outlook and Entourage, all previous versions, the display font of Monaco 9 was not anti-aliased, in E-rage 2004, it now is. At 9 point, which is what I want to use, it is unreadable.
Gah! Good thing I read this thread!
On 5/14/04 8:54 PM, Dan Crevier wrote:
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.
Ah, my old nemesis:
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/02q3/macosx-10.2/macosx-10.2-13.html#terminal
Also, slightly ironically related:
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/01q4/macosx-10.1/macosx-10.1-9.html#fonts
Dan: for a possible work-around for this seemingly eternal bug, look here:
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/003/panther/macosx-10.3-3.html
It's a hack, but if you can special-case some 1.003 font spacing when Monaco 9 is in use, it will make a lot of people happy... :)
I hesitate to go into the details because it's been over a year since I worked on this and I don't remember them all... But, the basic problem is that anti-aliased text only looks good with the kATSLineUseDeviceMetrics flag turned on, and non-anti-aliased text only looks good with the flag turned off. The problem is that you can only turn this flag on for an entire layout at time. You can't turn it on for runs of Monaco 9 within a larger layout of text. You might be thinking that we could just turn this on for plain text messages, but it's not quite that simple. There are lots of time plain text gets mixed with proportional text, and it would be really inconsistent if it sometimes looked good and sometimes didn't.
Dan
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