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Hack Enables Quartz Anti-Aliasing In All Carbon Apps

Posted by pudge on from the mmm-pretty dept.

Xenex writes "With the release of Mac OS X 10.1.5 a few days ago, Carbon applications now have access to Quartz anti-aliasing. However, we have to wait for developers to release updated versions of their applications to take advantage it. The people at Unsanity have decided that they didn't want to wait, and have released a 'haxie' called Silk. It forces Carbon applications to use the new Quartz anti-aliasing, and my experiences with it have all been perfect. So, now you can have a beautiful Snak, Mozilla, IE ... if it's Carbon, it's made pretty."

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  1. Why? by marktwain · · Score: 2, Informative

    Silk 1.0 has a known bug with current version of AIM. Developer promises a fix real soon now.

    I could care less. Makes Mozilla 1.0 look like OmniWeb and text is now Quartz-glorious in all apps. :)

    Run don't walk to snag this for 10.1.5.

  2. Re:Anti-Aliasing on TiBook by frankie · · Score: 3, Informative

    No need to license. If Apple wants to use technology identical to ClearType, they already own a patent on it.

  3. Get Adium by usermilk · · Score: 2, Informative

    Adium is a wonderful cocoa replacement for AIM.