[Ti] QuickTime 6.2 - strange font behavior

Roger Snyder rogersnyder at pobox.com
Wed Apr 30 07:51:53 PDT 2003


On 4/29/03 19:22, "Bill Reburn" wrote:

> On 4/29/03 5:06 PM, "John Griffin" <jwegriffin at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> I noticed since upgrading to the latest QT, some fonts of same size and
>> characteristics are smoothed and others are not.
>> 
>> I noticed this especially in iTunes 4 that uses Verdana. Some lines have
>> smoothing but all the rest are starkly rendered (very same font on all
>> lists). I have also noticed this with Entourage and a few other
>> applications. I have it set so that all fonts over 9 are supposed to be
>> smoothed.
>> 
>> Anybody else having this happen?

    I only noticed how worse iTunes looked. (I thought it happened before I
load QT though.)

> I believe if you drop the font smoothing down to 8 it fixes it. That's where
> I have mine, no problems at all.

    I did that, but then the listings in Entourage looked bad. I switched
back to 9 point, and now Entourage looks fine and iTunes stayed O.K.

-- Roger





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