Silk revisited
by Volker Weber
I have praised Silk in the context of Lotus Notes before. Silk enables the Quartz text rendering and smoothing introduced in Mac OS X 10.1.5 in all Carbon applications. This means antialiased text in Netscape, Mozilla, and many others.
After reading Mitch Kapor's difficulties with font rendering and Microsoft Word, I revisited the issue again. It turns out that Word without the Silk Haxie is all but unusable with Times Roman at 12pt:
I had not noticed this since Silk was enabled for all Carbon apps by default on Lucy and I had installed Office much later than Silk. So, if you don't have this wonderful enhancement yet on your Mac, go get it.
Comments
I like Silk as well, but you don't need it for Office.
In the general prefs you can setup Word to use Quartz font smoothing.
Best regards, Thomas
Cool. Never looked there.