Maybe it is hard to understand for those who do not wear corrective lenses. It is sad, because the other Apple Softwares I've tried on Windows do not suffer from this problem.Īre you like me? Anyone want to join me on a crusade against font smoothing? But my excitement was quickly turned down when font smoothing was enabled and like Mac OS the setting to disable it was pretty useless. I was actually very excited to try it since IE and Firefox like to use a lot of memory and wanted to see how it would compare on that front. This is why I'm sticking to Office 2003 until they fix this in a future version of Office.īut why this posting now? Simply because last night, Apple, like they do every two weeks, reminded me to update QuickTime on my laptop, but this time around, it also proposed "Safari" for Windows. Even if your Windows XP has the setting off, Office is a bad application and still decides to use smooth fonts. Then, Office 2007 came along and did the same thing. For me, among the zillions of reasons not to upgrade to Vista, that's the number one. But, Vista is now just like Mac OS, and maybe even worse since although you have a setting to turn it off, only half of the windows of the OS follow this setting – so in effect, you can't turn it off. It's no wonder why a former Mac addict (from 1985 to 1999, the year when Apple decided not to support my expensive PowerPC with Mac OS X) such as myself will not go back to using Mac OS – at least not until they get rid of font smoothing. How useless this is, especially when the Mac default font is more like 14pt! Basically, it means you cannot turn it off. That is to say, you could disable it, period! On the Mac, you could and can still only disable it for a font size smaller than a certain value but you can only set this value at most to 12pt. It all started when Windows XP (2000/2001) and Mac OS (2001) came out with smooth fonts. It's unlike me to complain (or maybe it's not, up to you to decide), but in the past few years it seems that software vendors have decided what was best for me and I really do not like this, especially when it affects 100% of the time I'm in front of my computer.
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