When you feel like there is something wrong with the way your fonts look, there are three possible explainations: either the screen fonts are not in your Fonts folder; your metrics are not in your TeX Fonts folder; or ATM is not setup properly. Here's a screen snapshot of a suggested ATM setup.
\nopagenumbers
hello
\end
With the above code typeset in Plain format, and ATM working just right you should get a crisp and clean 'hello' (
), which looks like the following when magnified:
There are two other choices that you can make that will degrade the quality of your typeset. One is to turn off font smoothing, which makes the text look like:
If ATM is turned off, then your text comes out really blocky (
), like so:
If none of the above options seem too fit how things look on your screen, then please send a snap shot of how things look on your screen and send it to help@bluesky.com. Simultaniously press command-shift-3 together to make a screen snapshot. A file called "Picture" will appear on the base directory of your hard drive (the one with the active System Folder on it).
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