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But it did. OS X (and Mac OS before it) were optimized for fidelity with higher resolution laser prints. This necessarily caused more anti-aliasing artifacts
by slededit 11y ago
But it did. OS X (and Mac OS before it) were optimized for fidelity with higher resolution laser prints. This necessarily caused more anti-aliasing artifacts then with pixel snapped text. It was actually less of a problem with CRT monitors where individual pixels blended better with each other.
This is not a shallow concern, pixel snapping can cause major issues like line breaks differing between print and display.
- michaelmrose 11y agoInteresting I would never have considered print publishing. That said. Was this configurable and what percentage of users were concerned with producing print copy? In what eras? I would but that these individuals were always a minority and the arrangement appears to be inferior for the majority of users for the majority of the time it was a factor.
- slededit 11y agoThis was a Steve Jobs obsession from his first calligraphy class at Reed College. Proper proportional fonts were built in with the original Macintosh - this wasn't something he was going to do a market analysis on to decide for him. However historically this was less problematic because screens were fuzzier anyways. It was only with LCDs that the anti aliasing became obvious.
- wvenable 11y agoThe Macintosh may have had a very small market in the 90's but one market that it did dominate was print.