[Boochie]

I just upgraded to Jaguar. The only thing I don't like is the appearance of anti-aliased text at small sizes. Unfortunately, it seems that when I raise the threshold for anti-aliasing, in certain applications the font spacing gets all screwed up. Quicken 2002 Deluxe is the worst offender. Basically I've decided I'd rather have the text anti-aliased in Quicken rather than being poorly spaced. All other apps are acceptable without anti-aliasing. So what I want to do is temporarily lower the threshold for anti-aliasing when I run Quicken.

Now it turns out that the following Unix shell command in Jaguar:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 8

does the same thing as setting this threshold in the General Preferences panel. So it would seem that I ought to be able to do the following:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 8
<run Quicken>
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 14

Now, how do I do this?? I can't figure out any way to run Quicken from the command line. What's the easiest way to write a script (AppleScript or Unix script) that does the equivalent of the above?

Thanks!

[Ibson]

open /Applications/Quicken.app

You might try setting the threshold just for Quicken's domain, though it might not respect it. That is:
defaults com.whatever.Quicken AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 14

...replacing the correct identifier above.

[Boochie]

Originally posted by Ibson:
open /Applications/Quicken.app

You might try setting the threshold just for Quicken's domain, though it might not respect it. That is:
defaults com.whatever.Quicken AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 14

...replacing the correct identifier above.

Thanks! I'll give both of these a try.