Silk & Quartz Text Rendering
Silk is a freeware prefs pane from the clever people at Unsanity Software which enables the Quartz text rendering and smoothing introduced in Mac OS X 10.1.5 in all Carbon applications. Text can now “look as good” as it does in Cocoa apps – provided you like this.
Chimera is being held up as the example to which apps should aspire, and it does do a terrific job of rendering text. I mentioned Chimera’s anti-aliased text in a previous post and said that I didn’t really like anti-aliased text. The release of Silk gives me an opportunity to bring up the subject again and set the Chimera record straight: you can turn off anti-aliased text in Chimera. There’s an option in one of the menus which I hadn’t noticed when I posted my earlier comments. Didn’t mean to cast aspersions on an excellent browser.
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Posted to Computers • 2002.06.07 (Fri) • 16:47
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