[X Newbies] Text Smoothing

cheshirekat cheshirekat at cheshirekat.com
Sat May 3 18:02:10 PDT 2003


On Sat, May 3, 2003, TheMacintoshLady TheMacintoshLady at earthlink.net,
invoked powers within the internet realm, to proclaim ...

>Can anyone please tell me how to make the smeary text go away on X? 
>On the regular Mac you can take that off of everything and have no wavy 
>lines, but on X it's only ABOVE 12.
>I am getting complaints that my text in IMs is too big, but anything 
>smaller than 18 looks like when you first get a new Mac with OS 9 and 
>don't turn off that text smoothing in the appearance panel.
>
>I am going blind using OS X. There must be an addon to help with this!

You can change font smoothing with the System Preferences application.

Click on the "General" pane.
The font smoothing option is at the bottom.

HTH

cheshirekat




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