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Slight Blur on new Macbook Pro

  • 16-03-2011 08:44PM
    #1
    Trotter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    I bought a new MacBook Pro yesterday and Im getting used to it gradually!

    One thing thats bothering me is the slight blur in the text in all 3 browsers on the Mac.. especially in words written in bold.

    Heres an example.. and I know its slight, but on a bright screen like the mac, a slight blur like that is a sure headache.

    151835.jpg

    Any ideas what Im doing wrong? Its a bit like when I was using a new monitor on my windows PC and the drivers hadnt been put in yet.


Comments

  • #2
    Sad Professor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,713 ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Is this your first Mac? It's probably just the anti-aliasing that you are noticing. You'll get used to it. If not, you can turn it off via the Terminal.


  • #3
    Trotter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭Trotter


    Sad Professor wrote: »
    Is this your first Mac? It's probably just the anti-aliasing that you are noticing. You'll get used to it. If not, you can turn it off via the Terminal.

    Its my first one.. Thanks for that.. is that an easy job?


  • #4
    vinnycoyne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,176 ✭✭✭vinnycoyne


    Try going into System Preferences and play around with the settings under Appearance - specifically the text smoothing options at the bottom.


  • #5
    Sad Professor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,713 ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Try what Vinny suggested above, but afaik TinkerTool will allow you to disable all font smoothing system-wide without having to resort to Terminal commands. Not sure how good it looks though.


  • #6
    Trotter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭Trotter


    Making a bit of progress using the tinkertool and the appearance settings too. Adjustments to the default font settings in the browser are helping too.

    Odd that you'd need to set it up like this though.


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  • #7
    barryj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 195 ✭✭barryj


    Trotter wrote: »
    Making a bit of progress using the tinkertool and the appearance settings too. Adjustments to the default font settings in the browser are helping too.

    Odd that you'd need to set it up like this though.

    The benefits of font-smoothing are somewhat subjective, so it's not really possible to please everyone with the defaults - though personally, while I hate ClearType on Windows, I like the default Mac setup. Can't say exactly why!

    - barry


  • #8
    Matt Bauer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 628 ✭✭✭Matt Bauer


    I agree, it's subjective.

    Here's what I recommend you do:

    Go into System Preferences, Appearance, and at the bottom of the Appearance change your setting for text smoothing so it doesn't apply to anything below size 12. By default I think it's set to 8. So click on the menu at the bottom of the pane and change it from 8 to 12.

    Enjoy! :)


  • #9
    Trotter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭Trotter


    Thanks for all the help everyone.. Ive tweaked a few things and its much better now.


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