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Anti-aliasing on a per application basis
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chu-ka-pi
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Oct 6, 2005, 04:10 PM
 
Hi there!

It's been a while since I've not posted here! Anyway...

Do any of you remember the command line to use to change anti-aliasing parameters on a per application basis. I do remember having read a whole article about it some time ago but can't find it again... (And I thought that google was my friend!)

Can someone enlight me please?

Cheers,

CKP
     
Boochie
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Oct 6, 2005, 04:57 PM
 
If you wanted to change global anti-aliasing threshold to 16, you'd do:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 16

at the terminal prompt.

If you wanted to change it for say just Safari, you'd do

defaults write com.apple.safari AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 16

or for Word:

defaults write com.microsoft.Word AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 14

You can find out the name of the domain to use by looking in your ~/Library/Preferences folder. In there you'll see all the preference files for the applications you run, typically with the naming convention of:

com.<company name>.<App Name>.plist

Have fun!
     
   
 
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