On 27 Jul 2005 at 22:43, Aaron Sherber wrote: > At 10:30 PM 07/27/2005, David W. Fenton wrote: > >Not on my PC: > > > >http://dfenton.com/Mixer.gif > > Okay, well now we're just splitting hairs. I'll grant you that the > characters in my screenshot have sharper outlines, but the characters > are all chunky, like an old-fashioned bitmap font. The characters in > the Finale screenshot are more recognizable as characters, even though > they're fuzzy.
So, you've just discovered that Mac anti-aliasing is better than Windows? > And the fuzziness is largely due to the fact that the Finale > screenshots are probably slightly reduced. In the Fin2006 Quick Start > Guide, there's a pasted screenshot -- also from the Mac version -- in > which the font is quite clear. > > And Winsupport has already admitted that the font reads much less well > in Windows than it does on Mac. They said, "I think it has to do with > the new display controls in the Mac OS," which sounds like a rather > lame excuse. Doesn't sound lame to me. Mac has significant differences in its font rendering technologies, and always has, and that's one of the reasons graphics people prefer the Mac. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
