Light text--Apparent cause

[Bruce Lewis]

According to this URL:

http://www.betalogue.com/2005/10/27/anti-aliasing-hall-of-shame-mac-os-xs-menu-bar/

there is a problem if colour is not used when anti-aliasing. I confirmed
that Revolution flds do not use colour to anti-alias in Mac OS 10.4.3. When
magnified, the legible text in Word or SuperCard shows the use of colour
and Revolution does not.

I believe this issue must have been introduced by OS 10.4.3.

I have made a Bugzilla report.

Bruce

At 9:05 PM -0500 11/16/05, Bruce Lewis wrote:
>I just installed Max OS X Tiger 10.4.3 and Revolution 2.6.1 on two
>different machines. One is a PowerBook and the other a power Mac, both with
>LCD displays.
>
>There seems to be a problem with the legibility of text in Revolution. The
>problem occurs throughout the program, including in the documentation. The
>problem occurs on both machines.
>
>It is worst in the fields in my stacks, which are mostly Times 14 point. It
>is not the system, since other programs are fine. I paste some text from a
>Revolution fld into MS Word and compare the two side by side. MS Word is
>fine and Revolution is barely legible.
>
>The difference is probably worse if I set smoothing to strong in the system
>preferences, but it is pronounced at any level.
>
>Any thoughts? Anyone else using a similar setup?


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