Fonts are ugly in Word X!
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dricci
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Well, because it's made my Microsoft, the makers of Windows, which is ugly. Well, that's my best guess, anyways 
I've only used Office 2001 and Word X Test Drive and I never really messed around with fonts in them, but I didn't notice anything too bad in there... I prefer AppleWorks 6 over Office anyways, just looks better and is easier to use... And the AppleWorks database features have always won me over.
I've only used Office 2001 and Word X Test Drive and I never really messed around with fonts in them, but I didn't notice anything too bad in there... I prefer AppleWorks 6 over Office anyways, just looks better and is easier to use... And the AppleWorks database features have always won me over.
Actually, as I understand it, Office is a bastardized child of Carbon and Cocoa. Must of the underlying code is Carbon, but it fully utilizes Quartz for all of it's interface, so there's got to be some cocoa thrown in there. Seems to me if they're using Quartz for imaging, it shouldn't have any problems with fonts. So I'm not sure what the deal is. All I know for sure is that if it were 100% Carbon, you could run it in 9, but you can't. You need 10.1 or higher
bighairydog
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Actually, only some carbon apps work in 9, if they have been specially designed to, like iTunes (I think). The finder is a pure carbon app, but won't run in 9. What's more, the finder has fine anti-aliassing, so it can't be that.
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