Display bug affects type appearance

[Joe VanDerBos]

This has bugged me for years. The on-screen display of Filemaker sometimes gets jaggy or fuzzy. Type doesn't display correctly. It's skewed and unreadable at any size. It can happen anytime, but usually occurs when changing magnification. Doesn't matter what font is open.

I'm on a mac G4, using OSX (although the same problem existing on previous macs, with earlier systems... Filemaker 6.0v4.

The same display bug affects other programs when FMPro is open! Does anyone have a clue about this... it's getting on my nerves as I do more and more with FMPro.

Thanks, Joe

[Anatoli]

Is there in OSX some font smoothing setting? It is in Windows and works like charm in FM too.

[Joe VanDerBos]

Yes, but this isn't the same as smoothing. Nor is it an anti-aliasing problem. It's distortion. MOre like static than jaggies

[BobWeaver]

I've never heard of this happening before. I wonder if it's related to a combination of monitor and monitor settings. I suggest trying a different monitor if you have one, or try different resolution and number of colors to see if that makes the problem go away.

[Anatoli]

Is that problem in all fonts or only in one?

[Lee Smith]

Hi Joe,

I've had this happen before. It turned out to be two different flavors of the same font. Apparently when I made the file I had selected a TrueType Font (Helvetica probably), but when I opened the file on a different machine, the TT Font wasn't available, so it substituted either the PostScript and/or a random font (can't remember which), possibly based on the Font ID's. Anyway, it sure wasn't displaying like it should have. I had to go through the layouts and select the fonts and point them at the correct font.

HTH

Lee

[Joe VanDerBos]

Thanks Lee, I'll try that. It's probably a Gill Sans I use.

Joe