eaton@eecs.ucdavis.edu (William "Opus" Eaton) (06/09/91)
I've read good things about type managers in this newsgroup. My question is this: do type managers (eg ATM & Facelift) also improve the appearance of the text in window borders and below icons? I ask this, because my eyes get really thrashed after a few hours in front of my PC. I tried playing with the background colors, thinking that would help, but it didn't. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Bill "Opus" Eaton insert standard disclaimer here ----------------------------------------------------------------
pshuang@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (06/10/91)
I've read good things about type managers in this newsgroup. My question is this: do type managers (eg ATM & Facelift) also improve the appearance of the text in window borders and below icons? Type managers won't help your eye fatigue very much. First of all, the fonts used to represent text in icons and window borders are generally fixed fonts, i.e. Windows uses specific bitmap fonts file for the job, the actual size of which depends on the resolution of your display. Type managers will not get invoked to generate fonts for such purposes. In any case, type managers will not improve the appearance of very small fonts, and will probably generate worse results than the bitmaps, because the latter were probably hand-tuned for the screen resolution by whoever designed the fonts included with Windows. Singing off, UNIX:/etc/ping instantiated (Ping Huang).