On Sat, May 3, 2003, TheMacintoshLady TheMacintoshLady at earthlink.net, invoked powers within the internet realm, to proclaim ... >cheshirekat tapped out this message on 5/3/2003 9:02 PM > >>You can change font smoothing with the System Preferences application. >> >>Click on the "General" pane. >>The font smoothing option is at the bottom. > > >Yes I know that but you are limited to text over size 12 and I use 12 or >under for normal use. The font smoothing preferences must be different for my configuration. "Turn off text smoothing for font sizes __ and smaller" 8 9 10 12 I have mine set at 8. But I don't know if this is different with the different OS X versions. I'm currently using 10.2.5. HTH cheshirekat