[Ti] Type fuzzy on new 17" monitor

[Bruce Lee]

On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 04:44  PM, John Griffin wrote:

> On  Fri, 21 Feb 2003 11:12:11 -0700 Bruce Lee <lee at suu.edu> wrote:
>
>> I just got a new 17" Studio Display and have hooked it to my 800mhz
>> tiBook through a DVI to ADC adaptor. I love the display. The colors 
>> and
>> graphics are stunning! However, the type, whether on a web page or a
>> Word document is a bit fuzzy or broken up. In the General System Prefs
>> I have font smoothing set at Medium-Best for Flat Panel and Turn off
>> font smoothing for font sizes 8 and smaller. I also have an ATY, Rage
>> M7 video card with 32 mg.
>> Is there something I can do, or is this just a drawback of the 
>> monitor.
>> Thanks,
>> Bruce C. Lee
>
> Bruce, are you sure you have the display set at 1280 X 1024 at 
> millions?
> Anything less will usually result in less than optimal text rendering.
>
> I have a 17" Studio Display hooked up to a 1 Ghz Powerbook and it 
> renders
> text really sharp. I have it set so text smoothing begins at 9 and is 
> at
> medium - best for flat panel.
>
> jg
>
Thanks. But my settings are the same as yours. I hope it isn't just my 
old eyes, but I think not.
Bruce
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