thanks for the research and testing, jack. nice to know it isn't happening just to me! Jack Rodgers wrote: > ... > > What is going on here? I thought the demo of Word X had lousy rendering > but so does AppleWorks. I turned on the font rendering for the menu and > that is excellent but the actual document really stinks. > > OK, I remembered a haxie called Silk and downloaded it from > Verstiontracker.com. It's shareware with a two week trial period. This > does the job. Obviously Apple has not fixed the rendering with > AppleWorks and this little bit of software does the trick. > > Note, reported funkiness but that this does not occur if you turn OFF > the global rendering and then ADD AW to the options. The rendering now > is not quite as good as Acrobat but significantly better. > > NOTE: if other applications begin acting up, deinstall the haxie.