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Antialiasing and Menubar apps
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with antialiasing of any level turned on (other than standard CRT), menubar apps that have text don't get smoothed. for example, meteorologist and fuzzy clock show up ugly, sharp, and spiky.
anyone experienced this before?
(all under 10.3.4)
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Originally posted by decursive:
with antialiasing of any level turned on (other than standard CRT), menubar apps that have text don't get smoothed. for example, meteorologist and fuzzy clock show up ugly, sharp, and spiky.
anyone experienced this before?
(all under 10.3.4)
What resolution and screen size do you have? Are they completely un-antialiased? Or is there still slight smoothing? Do you have an LCD?
The other smoothing options (other than CRT) smoothes on a sub-pixel (R, B, G) basis, so if the resolution is big and the pixels are easily seen, the antialiased edges of text will show some color.
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Originally posted by Stradlater:
What resolution and screen size do you have? Are they completely un-antialiased? Or is there still slight smoothing? Do you have an LCD?
The other smoothing options (other than CRT) smoothes on a sub-pixel (R, B, G) basis, so if the resolution is big and the pixels are easily seen, the antialiased edges of text will show some color.
i'm running on a 12" powerbook with 1024*768. it's quite obvious they're not being antialiased in any way.
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Originally posted by decursive:
i'm running on a 12" powerbook with 1024*768. it's quite obvious they're not being antialiased in any way.
What happens when you take a screenshot? (command-shift-3 or 4) then switch back to CRT. Is the screenshot still weird-ly antialiased? If so, post it here.
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None of the default menu extras are properly antialiased either. I mean they are antialiased but they look how other menus look in Thousands of colours mode. The easiest way to see this is to select the clock menu extra and look at the time white on blue - and then compare that to how the ordinary menus look, or just the options in the clock menu.
This is on a 12" iBook with 'Best for Flat Screen' antialiasing on for everything down to 4pt, and it has always been that way. The only other place that this occurs is in the Force Quit window ... the text is still antialiased, but not 'properly,' and I don't know why  .
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Originally posted by Stradlater:
What happens when you take a screenshot? (command-shift-3 or 4) then switch back to CRT. Is the screenshot still weird-ly antialiased? If so, post it here.
i'm not sure what you mean by this, a screenshot would be unaffected by the antialiasing.
here's an image of what i'm seeing:
looking closely, it does seem as though the system is applying some halfassed level of antialiasing, but not LCD style. it's not the standard CRT aliasing either, because it looks infinitely worse. so i have no idea what's going on.
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