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oldschool
Feb 8, 2004, 06:02 PM
Why does the text in appleworks look so bad? It seems to not be smoothed at all (even with font smoothing on in the appleworks preferences), while TextEdit looks beautiful. I'm comparing Helvetica 12pt to Helvetica 12pt in both...why the difference?


Maclarny
Feb 8, 2004, 07:55 PM
Appleworks is a pretty old application and probably not optimized for OSX's text smoothing. Miscrosoft Word is definately the best word processing app out there.
jholzner
Feb 8, 2004, 09:04 PM
I think the newest version 6.2.9 uses anti-aliasing.
oldschool
Feb 8, 2004, 09:43 PM
nah, still looks bad
HexMonkey
Feb 8, 2004, 09:53 PM
AppleWorks definately does use antialiasing, but it is not the same type as TextEdit. I suspect that, as Maclarny said, it is not optimised for Mac OS X.
oldschool
Feb 8, 2004, 11:25 PM
Well i did some searching and I found a preference pane that makes all carbon applications use OS X's antialiasing and font smoothing...appleworks looks like textedit now.

Silk (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/15012)
themadchemist
Feb 9, 2004, 04:36 AM
AppleWorks is a piece of junk any way you slice it. Extremely unstable.
spaceballl
Feb 9, 2004, 10:58 PM
I use Openoffice.org, the free suite. On the PC it's much better because it runs natively in windows whereas this one has to go through X11. It's really not bad at all though. All the features are still here, and it's a rock stable word processor. Text doesn't look so nice though...
-Kevin
bousozoku
Feb 9, 2004, 11:21 PM
Originally posted by themadchemist
AppleWorks is a piece of junk any way you slice it. Extremely unstable.

It is?

I'm only annoyed by one thing lately and that's the way it handles Japanese since Mac OS X. It just won't display the whole character and of course, it prints it exactly as you see it.
Mord
Feb 10, 2004, 03:34 PM
appleworks has never crashed on me it's stablke fast and usefull I prefer the simple interfase to word anyday

come on do you really need all that complecated crap?
janey
Feb 10, 2004, 03:46 PM
Originally posted by oldschool
Why does the text in appleworks look so bad? It seems to not be smoothed at all (even with font smoothing on in the appleworks preferences), while TextEdit looks beautiful. I'm comparing Helvetica 12pt to Helvetica 12pt in both...why the difference?
ya know its called antialiasing :)

Anyway, AppleWorks is not a cocoa app. TextEdit is. They do it differently, yeah I was gonna suggest you use Silk...

AppleWorks is great I guess... v7 is probably going to be killer...but I guess I can make do with TextEdit and Keynote until then :)
oldschool
Feb 11, 2004, 12:41 AM
Originally posted by übergeek
ya know its called antialiasing :)

Anyway, AppleWorks is not a cocoa app. TextEdit is. They do it differently, yeah I was gonna suggest you use Silk...

AppleWorks is great I guess... v7 is probably going to be killer...but I guess I can make do with TextEdit and Keynote until then :)

What's text smoothing then? Or was i just making up words?