--- Dan Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you see this problem before you bought your iMac? Is it better > or worse at different screen resolutions? No, I was just dazzled by the new iMac design and the beautiful graphics on the flat screen monitor. When I got home and started working on the computer the blurred text became obvious
> Silk really helps things when running Carbon apps. What settings do you have with Silk?? > Does this problem exist when you run OS 9, which might indicate a > hardware problem, or only under OS X? It's worse under OS X (suggests software problem to me, not hardware) > If the problem were specifically with OS X, you'd think the world would > be up in arms. Instead, most X users seem quite happy with the way > text is rendered on their displays, whether laptops or desktop machines. Those of us who are complaining about this may, in fact, share similar eyesight problems. I don't know. Personally, i am VERY nearsighted with heavily corrected vision with my glasses, including, of course, the use of bi-focals. When i go to sites promoting this or that smooth type or clear type or anti-aliasing 3rd party software gizmo, they often show examples of "before" and "after" and I DON'T like the "after" examples at all (the "before" examples are pretty crappy too. Maybe some of us just hate the "type-smoothing" approach to coming up with ways to make fonts appear better on computer screens. Sometimes think it's maybe just an attempt to avoid a real fix to the problem of text clarity. Certainly, it helps in Windows that the user has MUCH more control over the look of system fonts: type of font, size, color, etc., etc. Something that would help us a lot, I think, from the rest of you who are having no problem with this is for you to share with us what fonts work best for you in today's new and improved text smoothing environment. What works best for you in the following categories: Serif fonts? Non-Serif? Fixed widths? Proportional widths? Thanks for helping. I think I will be able to tweak things eventually so that the fonts look mostly A-OK on my flat-panel iMac. Dale > Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. > <http://cobwebpublishing.com> <http://lowendmac.com> > <http://digital-views.com> <http://digigraphica.com> > <http://lowendpc.com> <http://reformed.net> > > "You can't brew a premium lager with a kool-aid mentality." > -- The Red Green Show > > > -- > The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished > Drives | > - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on > Sale! | > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! > http://www.applelinks.com > ===== "In most cases there is no free exercise whatever ... of the moral sense."--Henry David Thoreau __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
