Re: Re: Mac OS X Panther
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- Subject: [mg44553] Re: [mg44220] Re: [mg44201] Mac OS X Panther
- From: Selwyn Hollis <sh2.7183 at misspelled.erthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 01:58:45 -0500 (EST)
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Heads up for Mac OS X 10.3 users: Silk (http://www.unsanity.com) has finally been updated, so you can have Quartz text smoothing in Mathematica again. ----- Selwyn Hollis http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis On Oct 29, 2003, at 3:34 AM, Selwyn Hollis wrote: > I've convinced myself that the problem is nothing new to Panther or > Mathematica 5.0. I had been using a "haxie" named Silk > (http://www.unsanity.com) to enable Quartz text smoothing in Carbon > apps, and it no longer works in Panther. Supposedly an update of Silk > is forthcoming soon. > > And with any luck a Cocoa version of the Mathematica front end will > happen in our lifetime. (?) > > BTW, Panther is well worth the upgrade. > > ----- > Selwyn Hollis > http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis > > On Oct 26, 2003, at 12:41 AM, Selwyn Hollis wrote: > >> I've just installed Mac OS X 10.3, and I was horrified to find that >> font smoothing no longer works in Mathematica 5.0. Any type smaller >> than 18 points looks dreadful. I wonder if others are having the same >> experience. To be fair, I'm also seeing the same problem (no surprise) >> in Microsoft Word. >> >> ----- >> Selwyn Hollis >> http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis >> (edit reply-to address to reply) >> >> > >