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anti-aliasing after minimizing windows in expose
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tkmd
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May 19, 2004, 06:17 PM
 
It used to work, now I have no idea why after I use expose to minimize all the windows does the text in the windows are anti-aliased- making the text (font size 8 or 6) look fuzzy and unreadable. Otherwise all the options are checked to turn off AA in tinkertool and in the display menu. Any idea's?
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May 21, 2004, 06:44 PM
 
Does anyone have this problem or is it just me?
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May 21, 2004, 08:22 PM
 
What problem? Antialiasing is a good thing.

Exposé (under Quartz Extreme) uses OpenGL texturing to resize the windows. There is bilinear filtering during this resize, so stark black/white pixels at regular size will be smoothed with shades of grey when they are resized smaller.
     
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May 22, 2004, 03:54 PM
 
Ummm, thats not good. AA IMO is poor. I like my text sharp and jagged- not fuzzy. Anyone know how to get the AA off during expose minimising? All other text it has been taken off.
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May 22, 2004, 05:31 PM
 
Originally posted by tkmd:
Ummm, thats not good. AA IMO is poor. I like my text sharp and jagged- not fuzzy. Anyone know how to get the AA off during expose minimising? All other text it has been taken off.
You can't. It's impossible.

Exposé works by reducing the size of each window as a graphic. This happens after the text rendering has taken place. And antialiasing is a side effect of nearly all graphic scaling algorithms.

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