Screen fonts great in Rev, bad in Word- why?

[Dave Cragg]

On 18 Jul 2005, at 17:38, Mark Swindell wrote:

> Why do screen fonts look so good  in Rev and Pages and so bad in  
> Word and AppleWorks?  Even with Font smoothing turned on in  
> AppleWorks Times still looks terrible... hardly useable.   I'm  
> using OS X Tiger.  I also set the system font smoothing pref to  
> flat panel.  What am I missing?

My memory's a bit rusty here, but I think that AppleWorks doesn't use  
the Quartz font rendering (or whatever it's called). This was added  
to Rev (then Metacard??) shortly after OS X was released.

There used to be a third-party System Preference thingy called Silk  
that allowed this to be enabled for apps that didn't support the new  
OS X font rendering. I know it worked well for AppleWorks. I'm not  
sure if Silk still works in Tiger.

Cheers
Dave