Comments on: Chunky text in Pages http://borkwarellc.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/chunky-text-in-pages/ Bork bork bork bork. Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:17:36 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Chris Ryland http://borkwarellc.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/chunky-text-in-pages/#comment-736 Chris Ryland Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:41:23 +0000 http://borkwarellc.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/chunky-text-in-pages/#comment-736 @Sean: I'm 53 and already using reading glasses, so I'm not claiming superior eyes. ;-) I just can't stand bitmap jaggies on fonts at any size. In fact, I'm delighted with the Mac's superior anti-aliasing engine (which preserves overall shape, vs. ClearType, which breaks fonts on Procrustean pixel beds). I'm even happy with the really small type on the NYTimes front page, but perhaps that's due to my reading glasses. @Mark: Sigh, yes, if you have chroma problems with your glasses, I could see how both Mac AA and Cleartype would kill you. Don't worry, in another 2-3 years we'll have 200dpi screens and the problem will be solved for good. @Sean: I’m 53 and already using reading glasses, so I’m not claiming superior eyes. ;-) I just can’t stand bitmap jaggies on fonts at any size. In fact, I’m delighted with the Mac’s superior anti-aliasing engine (which preserves overall shape, vs. ClearType, which breaks fonts on Procrustean pixel beds). I’m even happy with the really small type on the NYTimes front page, but perhaps that’s due to my reading glasses.

@Mark: Sigh, yes, if you have chroma problems with your glasses, I could see how both Mac AA and Cleartype would kill you. Don’t worry, in another 2-3 years we’ll have 200dpi screens and the problem will be solved for good.

]]> By: Mark Dalrymple http://borkwarellc.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/chunky-text-in-pages/#comment-735 Mark Dalrymple Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:22:11 +0000 http://borkwarellc.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/chunky-text-in-pages/#comment-735 @Chris :-) I wish I could crank it up higher than 12. My lenses have chromatic aberration, which makes colors appear in the wrong place in my field of vision. anti-aliased text usually gives me a headache, and colorized code is a no-go (oh look, 'for' is hovering up into the line above) @Chris :-) I wish I could crank it up higher than 12. My lenses have chromatic aberration, which makes colors appear in the wrong place in my field of vision. anti-aliased text usually gives me a headache, and colorized code is a no-go (oh look, ‘for’ is hovering up into the line above)

]]> By: Daniel Jalkut http://borkwarellc.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/chunky-text-in-pages/#comment-734 Daniel Jalkut Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:57:01 +0000 http://borkwarellc.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/chunky-text-in-pages/#comment-734 Thanks! I think this explains crappy invoice output I was getting from Pages, which magically went away when I changed the font. Thanks! I think this explains crappy invoice output I was getting from Pages, which magically went away when I changed the font.

]]> By: Sean McCune http://borkwarellc.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/chunky-text-in-pages/#comment-733 Sean McCune Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:46:19 +0000 http://borkwarellc.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/chunky-text-in-pages/#comment-733 Chris, wait a few years... or decades... and you will know how he can stand it. I say this with the sad sense of inevitability that I got last week from having to put reading glasses on for the first time in order to read some food labels. I wish there were named sets of preferences that could be created, like "Render for my 42 year old eyes" and "Render as faithfully as possible, even if it will be illegible to me". That way we could choose at export time which set to apply. Tangentially, I hate that I can't just create and edit Word docs in Pages but have to save and edit "Pages" files and export them to Word docs. This makes it very inconvenient when having to receive .doc files via email, edit them, and send them back to someone. As bloated as it is, NeoOffice maintains a place in my Application folder because of this. Chris, wait a few years… or decades… and you will know how he can stand it. I say this with the sad sense of inevitability that I got last week from having to put reading glasses on for the first time in order to read some food labels.

I wish there were named sets of preferences that could be created, like “Render for my 42 year old eyes” and “Render as faithfully as possible, even if it will be illegible to me”. That way we could choose at export time which set to apply.

Tangentially, I hate that I can’t just create and edit Word docs in Pages but have to save and edit “Pages” files and export them to Word docs. This makes it very inconvenient when having to receive .doc files via email, edit them, and send them back to someone. As bloated as it is, NeoOffice maintains a place in my Application folder because of this.

]]> By: Chris Ryland http://borkwarellc.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/chunky-text-in-pages/#comment-732 Chris Ryland Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:59:43 +0000 http://borkwarellc.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/chunky-text-in-pages/#comment-732 Whoa, I use a 4pt limit in the system-wide setting. How can you stand non-aliased text at 12pt? Whoa, I use a 4pt limit in the system-wide setting. How can you stand non-aliased text at 12pt?

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