Anti-aliasing turned off

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• Reply 1 of 2

  ichroma Posts: 27member

  September 29, 2003 5:40AM

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  Originally posted by Chucker
  
  So there's that trick to just manually edit the .GlobalPreferences.plist file in your ~/Library/Preferences/ folder: set the Anti-Aliasing threshold to something higher than usual - like 22. It works for almost everything. Menubar, Dock, _most_ Carbon apps like the Finder, X11's quartz-wm...
  
  
  
  ...but why not Cocoa? It looks like Cocoa disregards OS X's anti-aliasing setting for its UI elements (including the titlebar). And why not iTunes, either?
  
  
  
  I smell inconsistency.
  
  
  
  Oh and... Aqua is ugly when it isn't anti-aliased. As in, really ugly. I think it must be Quartz's fault, or rather, DisplayPDF's: PDF was always meant to anti-alias anything (IIRC), so it doesn't work well with pixelized stuff.
  

  
  

  
  
  i've been trying to switch off the accursed anti-aliasing as, for me, it renders osx practically unusable. i cannot find the item you refer to in the /Library/Preferences/ folder. how come?
• Reply 2 of 2

  chucker Posts: 5,089member

  September 29, 2003 8:24AM

  - not /Library/Preferences, but ~/Library/Preferences (i.e., not at the root dir, but at the home dir)
  
  
  
  - it's a dot file, i.e. it's invisible in the Finder