Blurry font with Explorer and Omniweb!

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in macOS edited January 2014
Hi,



Under 10.1.5 I have Explorer 5.2 .1 and Omniweb 4.1 And on both i have now blurry text it's look like it has been smudged...does anyone knows the reason?



Alex



P.S Both browsers have default setting

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 7
    pyr3pyr3 Posts: 946member
    Could be that your monitor is misaligned. Or you need to de-guase (not sure of the spelling) it if it's a CRT. <a href="http://www.thescreensavers.com"; target="_blank">http://www.thescreensavers.com</a>; did an article on it yesterday. You might check that. Might not be a monitor issue though.
  • Reply 2 of 7
    You must mean the beautiful Quartz Antialiasing. This is standard Mac OS X behavior. Why on earth would you want it off?
  • Reply 3 of 7
    kickahakickaha Posts: 8,760member
    Could also be your LCD settings, if you're on one.



    The older Apple LCD displays (pre-DVI/ADC) have a tracking feature that makes the display either crystal clear or blurry. OS 9 had support for setting this, but OS X doesn't yet.



    Set your desktop background to the old 50% B/W stipple pattern (grab Graphic Converter and make a 32x32 picture of this, and set your desktop to it). You'll see bands of waviness if your tracking is off.



    Bring up the tracking adjustment feature through the on-display menu, and adjust until it looks crisp. Note that it can be adjusted into *two* crisp modes - one is quite dark, and one is quite light. I like the light one. Play around to find both.



    I just did this two days ago, and it helped *tremendously*.
  • Reply 4 of 7
    alex2002alex2002 Posts: 10member
    I have a New powerbook 667 and what puzzle me is that everything worked fine until I downloaded 10.1.5 and omniweb 4.1 !



    Does anyone have a clue?



    Alex <img src="confused.gif" border="0">
  • Reply 5 of 7
    pushermanpusherman Posts: 410member
    It's the Quartz text anti-aliasing. First I'd make sure if you're using a flat-panel display or a laptop that you're using the optimum resolution for the display. Usually this is the highest one available, if it's an Apple display.



    If that doesn't fix it and you'd like to turn it off, download a free piece of software called TinkerTool. You can get it from <a href="http://www.versiontracker.com"; target="_blank">VersionTracker</a>. After it's installed, you will find its icon in the lowest part of the System Preferences window. Check the box that says "Disable Font Smoothing in CoreGraphics." After you log out and log back in, font smoothing will be turned off.



    (BTW, this will disable font smoothing throughout, not just in IE or OmniWeb. It's a function of the system, not the software. If you can get your hands on a copy of IE 5.1, it doesn't have the support for OS X's font smoothing and it will go back to how it used to look).
  • Reply 6 of 7
    alex2002alex2002 Posts: 10member
    Thank you guys for the info...I have a hard tine to believe that apple has implemented that "thing" I can't keep my eye on my laptop screen more than 1/2 before it start to hurt !



    Alex <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
  • Reply 7 of 7
    arbernautarbernaut Posts: 182member
    In Internet Explorer 5.2 for OSX you can turn off the Quartz text rendering (which looks better on some sites, but anything that uses 9px verdana looks crap). Simply go to the preferences and select Interface Extras and uncheck the Enable Quartz text smoothing checkbox. Simple.
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