[PD] Monaco on OS X is not anti-aliased at size 10

Luke Iannini (pd) lukexipd at gmail.com
Sun Sep 30 18:25:27 CEST 2007


Hi Hans,It does not respect that preference, sorry, I should have mentioned
that.  My setting is for sizes 6 and below (and Monaco is AA @ size 9).

Also, to be clear, it is not a Pd problem, as Monaco is also non-AA'd in
TextEdit at size 10.

On 9/30/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
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> That's controlled by a user preference.  In System Prefernences, check the
> bottom of the "Appearance" panel, you'll see an option called "Turn off text
> smoothing for font sizes XXX and smaller".
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> .hc
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> On Sep 30, 2007, at 6:41 AM, Luke Iannini (pd) wrote:
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> Monaco does not render with anti-aliasing at size 10, though it is AA'd at
> 8 and at 11 and up.  I'm not sure why this is; I poked around a bit on
> Google to no avail.  In Terminal.app there is an option to use AA that
> seems to override that issue ( i.e. it renders 10pt Monaco with AA).
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> Anyhow, I just switched to Bitstream.  But having the non-AA as default is
> probably a bad idea since it looks terrible : ).
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> Cheers
> Luke
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