At 11:38 PM 07/27/2005, David W. Fenton wrote:
>On 27 Jul 2005 at 23:13, Aaron Sherber wrote:
>
>> This isn't a question of better anti-aliasing -- . . .
>
>It looks like one to me.
Okay. But it's not.
>> . . . the Win
>> screenshot looks like total crap. . . .
>
>It's more readable on my screen because the Mac fonts are anti-
>aliased into blurriness.
As I said in an earlier post, the Mac fonts are probably blurry
because the image has been slightly reduced. The larger image in the
Quick Start Guide is not so blurry. (And here you're saying you don't
like the Mac anti-aliasing, while in an earlier post you said the mac
had *better* anti-aliasing.)
>> around the edges. But they're not pixillated, they're just chunky.
>
>Well, it's clearly a different font, but that's probably, shock of
>shocks, because Windows and OS X don't have the same system fonts.
And yet somehow Finale manages to use different yet legible fonts on
both platforms in other parts of the application.
>The Windows screen shots you've provided are easier to read than the
>Mac screenshot from the website. That's all I have to go on.
If the letterforms were equally sharp, the Mac version would be more
legible than its chunky cousin. And I believe that the Mac
letterforms *are* less blurry than what is on the Finale website,
because I think that image has been reduced in size.
>Did you suggest to MakeMusic that they provide their own display font
>for this purpose? That's the only way they could possibly avoid a
>cross-platform difference of this nature.
It's not the only way. They could just specify a Windows system font
(like MS Sans Serif) rather than a Mac one. That seems elementary.
Aaron.
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