10.4.10-Instabilities... blurry text on everything

As soon as I did the security and iTunes update all of my fonts look blurry, on my G4 PB. I tried dumping the font cashe with Font Finagler, restarted, and ended up with a very long wait with only a very clear desktop picture, spotlight icon, and later, when everything booted, the same blurry problem. Hmm, even seems like the blurring is greater away from the center of the screen. Weird.
Is there a way to rollback this update?
Thanks,
Tony

Tony,
Have you experimented changing the settings in System Preferences...>Appearance>"Font smoothing style:"...and "Turn off text smoothing for font sizes (x) and smaller?"
;~)

Similar Messages

Macbook Pro screen - Seeing double Blurry text everything else

Man....Something happened. I have a pretty much brand new 17 inch pro. I woke it up and now the text and everything else is blurry. when looking at text for example it's like there are two sets! This isn't just when using a specific application. This is everything, desktop icons, etc. I've restarted, zoom is off in universal access and my screen resolution is fine....what now?!?! HELP!

Hello Gyan7Verma and welcome to Apple Support Communities,
First it would help to have the complete information on on the size, OS and year on your computer the way Jprong posted.
Did either of you try resetting PRAM and SMC?
reset NVRAM
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063
Reset SMC
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295
Jprong et al, did you try booting from an installer disk or another OS on an external drive?

Blurry Text, Screen Jump/Shift, Waterlogged Look at Top??

I've been having some problems with my 23" Monitor lately. I noticed recently when brought up in firewire the top of the monitor has a waterlogged type stain in the pixels, they aren't dead but discolored. Today i have been having worse problems though, Random sections of the screen are blurry. This is mostly noticeable over text but everything blurs, its not just strictly the text. I have also noticed a slight jump or shift with the entire screen horizontally when moving the mouse from one side to the other. I don't know whether this is likely a problem with the monitor or my graphics card but any advice would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance.
Mac Mini - 23" Cinema Display, 24" Imac Mac OS X (10.4.9)

My monitor was doing this too. Our tech guy figured this out. The "zoom" feature had been turned on by accident. The "zoom" feature causes the screen to shift with mouse movement and the text to be blurry in certain places.
It can be found under: System Preferences>System>Universal Access>Zoom. You just need to turn it off.
Hope this fixes your problem.
Dual 2.5 Ghz PowerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

MacBook Pro Retina & Firefox blurry text etc.

Hi,
sorry, i am not a native engl. speaker, so pl. excuse bad language etc!
My problem is, that firefox 21 & MBP retina (10.8.4) do not go together well. as i said above, the text & graphics is/are blurry.
with safari everything is like it should be!
Any suggestions?
M.

Sounds like a permission issue.
Navigate to the iTunes Music Library.itl file
The path should be Username/Music/iTunes/
Right click on the iTunes Library.itl and select Get Info
The window will open on the left hand side. Go to the Sharing and Permissions section at the bottom
Click the padlock to allow changes and enter your Mac logon password
Select yourself and make sure you have Read & Write selected. Click padlock to lock it again
Close the Get Info window and try and start iTunes

Blurry Text and Incorrectly rendered colors in 8,1

Ok...I'm at my wits end with this lap top. I have tried everything. I fixed it once...for about 48 hours, and then it went right back to the way it was.
Problem: My laptop (HP Envy with windows 8.1) exhibits the common blurry text problem that everyone complains about. However, there's an additional problem with mine. The colors are all off. Reds show up as greens, greens show up
as reds. It's a mess. I can't even watch a movie on this thing cause it looks like a different planet!
I have downloaded all the newest latest greatest drivers for my graphics card. I have went to the manufacturers website and searched for drivers and downloaded them. I originally had W8. I downloaded and installed W8.1. No change.
My graphics card is the AMD Catalyst. I upgraded it.
When I fixed this thing the first time, I THINK the thing that did it was to go into Control Panel to uninstall programs. My AMD catalyst, when I clicked on it gave the option to "repair". So I hit that. When I restarted...my
colors and text were perfect. For about two days. Now it's back to it's former crappyness. I tried that again to no avail.
I've tried all the "de-scaling" crap that has been suggested on various forums. Nada.
Someone please help me with this. I'm deployed overseas and my laptop is my lifeline over here.

Go through the step by step instructions as sited here:
How-To Uninstall AMD Catalyst™ Drivers From A Windows® Based System
There is also a
standalone uninstallation utility will clean your system of any existing AMD Catalyst drivers to prepare your PC for the clean installation of a new driver version.
Once the driver uninstalled visit AMD's website to download and install the latest compatible driver.
Right click your desktop.
Choose AMD Catalyst Control Center
Locate 3D Application Settings (under gaming)
Locate Morphological Filtering.
Make sure it is off.
S.Sengupta, Windows Entertainment and Connected Home MVP

I have a PDF with a diagram, I need to translate the text so I open it in Illustrator. The document opnes up vertically oriented I try to put it horizontal to be able to read and change the text However everything I have done is not working The artboa

I have a PDF with a diagram, I need to translate the text so I open it in Illustrator. The document opens up vertically oriented I try to put it horizontal to be able to read and change the text However everything I have done is not working The artboard does change, but the diagram stays vertical.....Please help I need to finish that for today..Please help

A PDF usually consists of one to an indefinite number of clipping masks inside each other.
You need to be very carefull with selecting stuff.
So you need to read the manual on how to select stuff and on the basics of Illustrator.
On top of that: because of the complex hierarchy of PDF files, it is kind of difficult to help you without seeing anything.

Lumia 925 blurry text while scrolling

Noticed that my lumia 925 has a blurry text while scrolling, specially when scrolling white text over black background or black text over white background... also noticed some blurry when scrolling tiles on the home screen, this blurry occurred around the black horizontal lines separating the tiles.... compared the scrolling with the 920 and there is a huge difference...
I read that some of the galaxy S4 units has this problem and that this problem related to Samsung AMOLED screens, and you know the lumia 925 has a Samsung AMOLED screen.
Any one has these issues? let me know in comments please..

I have the same issue with L1020.
I am extremely annoyed and disappointed at Nokia for messing up the PERFECT display of L920.
After using L920 for months and laughing at lower quality displays of other phones, this L1020 display feels like those typical phone displays.
Are nokia engineers so incompetent or everyone of them have vision issues that you ship a phone with such s**t quality?

Fix for blurry text on Dell 30" U3014 connected by DisplayPort to Mac Pro (late 2013) AMD D700

Just connected my new Mac Pro (late 2013) to my Dell 30" U3014 with DisplayPort cables, only to find blurry text and bad gamma etc.
Whilst the earlier post/discussion Mac Pro (8 core with the D700 GPU's) (Dell U2713H) was somewhat illumative, I thought a simple list of links for this specific configuration might help someone.
The Ruby script, modified for D3014 can be found at post http://embdev.net/topic/284710#3153072
If you're impatient like me, don't forget to copy the created Folder to /System/Library/Displays/Overrides before rebooting. Thanks to Blurry text on Dell Monitor + Mac OS X | Danilo Ercoli
Piers

Hi Grant,
Thanks for taking the time to think about my issue and respond. But I don't see where your response is relevant.
I want to connect two monitors, each via Mini-Display Port, and only one will work at a time. I am not using DVI cables at all. In this article, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6068, it clearly states that I can connect three monitors via Thunderbolt (mini-display port) as long as they're on different busses. I was doing that, and it didn't work.
What display configurations can I use with my Mac Pro (Late 2013)?
You can connect up to six displays to your Mac Pro (Late 2013) running Windows 8 via Boot Camp. Check the list below to be sure you're setting up your displays in a supported configuration via the HDMI and Thunderbolt ports.
You can connect:
Six Apple LED Cinema Displays (27-inch) or third-party displays via Thunderbolt. For best results, attach displays to different Thunderbolt busses when possible (see figure below).
Three Apple Thunderbolt Displays (27-inch). Connect only one per Thunderbolt bus (see figure below). Note: You could connect three more LED Cinema Displays (27-inch) or third-party displays, one per Thunderbolt bus, for a total of six displays.
Two Apple Thunderbolt Displays (on Thunderbolt bus 1 and 2) and one 4K Ultra HD TV using HDMI.
Two 4K displays (on Thunderbolt buses 1 and 2) and one 4K Ultra HD TV on HDMI).

Responsive Scaling Blurry Text

Hi all,
I've been having a lot of problems with the built in responsive scaling but have found work arounds for all my issue's except one, the blurry text. I presume it's common that people find text becomes a little blurry when responsive scaling is implemented (on certain browsers). Is there a work around for this to prevent it from happening? I have done a lot of searching but not found anything at all, other than a comment by adobe that it's a browser issue.
Thanks

Hi there,
Here is the practice site i've been working on:
COMPCADEMY - Computer Systems
If you look at this site using Chrome for example much of the text is not crisp at all. If you load it in Internet Explorer though it's perfect.
Thanks

Fuzzy/blurry text in Captivate 7

Hi alll,
We recently upgraded from Captivate 6 -> 7. Usually we use transparent text boxes for text, and when publishing in Captivate 7, the text gets blurry/fuzzy, regardless of color, size, font etc. We had the same problem in an earlier version of Captivate (I think maybe it was Captivate 3), and the workaround then was to highlight at least one charachter within each text box, but this does not work in Captivate 7.
Funny thing is that if I just drag the generated .htm file into my browser window, the text is crisp and clear, but when I run the same module from our LMS, it all gets blurry and fuzzy.
Any help to avoid this would be very appreciated.

Captivate text displaying blurry has been an issue since day one. I've had to deal with it and spend dozens of hours of R&D to try to figure it out... and as you see I'm still searching for an answer. It seems soooo simple but it must be extremely complex because Adobe just can't figure it out! It was the same thing in Flash. We are a global org producing e-learning for fortune 500 companies and at one point Captivate was our most used tool. Due to this issue and a bunch of others, our shop is now doing 75% of our projects in Storyline, 20% in Lectora, and we have ZERO clients asking for Captivate for the last 2 years. When a client spends tens of thousands of dollars on a project, they don't want to have to look at blurry, jagged text. I wish it wasn't this way because I am a highly experienced Cp developer now having to learn Storyline. But Adobe has either ignored this issue or just cannot fix it. In the image below, you can see the differences in the way Captivate displays text and the horrifying difference between Cp and Flash that I just don't get. That one causes a huge issue when we drop Flash stuff in a Cp slide and are required to stay consistent with font type and size.
Keep in mind, the problem everyone is frustrated about is mainly text that uses Transparent style caption. It appears better when in a styled caption bubble. The blurry text issue can be somewhat fixed by applying a white highlight on all the text. Although, it is still not what we are looking for. And, this extra step in development is painful, costly, and there is always a few that we miss and then we get complaints, etc.
Man, that first one is just nasty!
One last thing I discovered that works, but not all of the time, is that if you create a dummy variable with no value, then put your text in a transparent text caption, add a few spaces at the end and then insert that variable, you will see crisp, clean text as if it was html. Again, too much work and not a consistent solution!!
Hope that helps for those who are new to captivate, and for those like me, who have lost too many hours of precious life and money on this.
See ya, have to continue my Storyline training now...

Help...is there a way to send an entire text mesage thread to my email? My phone is sending duplicate texts and everything I am reading says to delete message threads. I have an IPhone 4. thanks

Help...is there a way to send an entire text mesage thread to my email? My phone is sending duplicate texts and everything I am reading says to delete message threads. I have an IPhone 4. thanks

You can try an app like PhoneView (Mac) or TouchCopy (Mac or PC). Both will allow you to archive text messages to your computer.

Blurry text at 1650 x1080

I'd like to use the 1650 x1080 screen resolution under Displays in System Preferences since it gives me a lot of screen real estate, but isn't too small text-wise. Unfortunately, when I set it to that resolution everything appears slightly blurry. If I set it to 1920 x 1280 then everything is nice and sharp, but way too small.
Any idea what's going on? Am I stuck with using 1920 x 1280 and that's it. Any ideas would be much appreciated.

Raymond,
I leave my monitor at the highest and sharpest resolution but everything is to small. There are ways around that in most programs but you have to set it in each program (once).
Finder - Finder > View > Show view options > Text Size
Mail - Mail > preferences > Fonts and colors tab > .....
Firefox - Firefox > preferences > Content tab > Default font.
etc etc. Most programs have a preference for font and size settings that can make everything much more readable.
Regards,
Captfred

Printing a PDF created in Indesign results in blurry text.

Hello All,
I am in need of assistance.
I have created a flyer for one of my companies products in In-design.
When I print the project directly form In-design the print looks great and the text is nice and crisp.
However, when I export the project to a "Press Quality" PDF, and print it the text comes our blurry and "dirty"
I have been trying to fix this for 2 days now with no luck.
I have tried multiple different setting during the export to PDF form In-design, all resulting in the same issue.
What is strange is when I print the PDF in black and white the text look just as good as if it were printed directly from In-design in colour.
I looked around online and found allot of posts regarding this issue but no definitive results.
I have also checked the colour of the text and it is 100%K.

What color is the text?
Can you show some screen shots?

2nd display - blurry text

I'm trying to configure my HDTV (CRT 720p/1080i) as a second display, mostly for use with Front Row and XBMC for OSX. I'm using a DVI-to-HDMI cable as a connector and upon the first use, Leopard decided upon the appropriate resolution for the TV (1920x1080).
It's working pretty well, but all the text is moderately-to-very blurry. I've noticed that it's the case in almost all resolution settings, though it's slightly better when I select a "stretched" resolution.
Any ideas on sharpening up that text?
Please and thanks.

Hi Mickey
Same here my 27" flat screen TV is great for frontrow, videos, slideshows etc. Not so good as a second display to work in, see Tip way down at the bottom of the "Mini-DVI video out port" article below:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303086
Dennis

Blurry Text When Using Video out With FX 5900U

I just got a MSI Geforce FX5900Ultra VTD256, and i was trying to play games on my TV. I used the S-Video to video (the yellow Cable) adapter and when im in the desktop, all the text is real blurry, i cant even read it. I tried lowering the resolution to see if that would make it easyer to read, but it didnt work. Can someone please help. Maybe the is somthing wronge with me TV???

Hi,
TV sets have lower resolution and bandwidth than PC monitors - the two are sort of related, but are not quite the same thing.
Resolution is often measured in "lines", meaning the number of individual vertical lines that could be displayed across the width of the TV and still be distinguishable as individual lines. A figure of 800 lines was considered pretty good, and could usually only be achieved in a TV studio, from a camera direct to a monitor. So 800 pixels is about as much as a TV (especially a smaller one) can reasonably display. (The vertical resolution depends on the TV standard, and is about 600 lines or pixels for PAL, and about 500 for NTSC)
The other factor is Bandwidth, which is measured in Megahertz (MHz). Basically, the finer the (horizontal) detail, the more bandwidth you need in the path between the source and the picture tube to display it faithfully. Broadcast TV is deliberately limited to about 5MHz, whereas a computer monitor will have several tens of MHz of bandwidth.
Also, the chrominance (colour) component of a composite or S-Video signal is limited to less than 2 MHz, so fine colour detail will be worse off (Black on white or vice-versa will give best results).
Anyway, the practical outcome of all this is that the highest resolution you can use for TV out is 800x600, and even then you need to use larger fonts (so the vertical lines are thicker, and there are a reasonable number of horizontal lines in a character). The maximum number of characters per line should be less than 60-80.
There are some scan-converters available which use fancy techniques to render a reasonable image at higher resolutions, but they are fairly expensive.
S-Video should give better results than composite, but you will still be up against bandwidth and resolution limits
Cheers

10.4.10-Instabilities... blurry text on everything

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for