Fonts don't look as good (even on an imac)?

Is it just me or do the fonts look worse on snow leopard? I just installed it, and I first noticed it in Mail -- all the text for my mailboxes look a little harder to read. The text rendering just doesn't seem to look as good. Anyone else notice this?
I read some posts about how certain monitors don't report that they are LCD's, and so the font smoothing isn't used. But I am on a 24" imac and it says it is using the LCD font smoothing. It just looks worse.
Anyway it could be my imagination -- I might try to compare them side by side and see for sure.
Bob

There have been some reports to that, specifically for external (Dell) monitors. I can't vouch for the following, so proceed at your own risk:
http://rubenerd.com/font-smoothing-snow-leopard/
Joe

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I'm not sure, but maybe you hit on something I'm
doing wrong. I've not taken any care in how I've
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Burns was customizable! If this is the case, doesn't
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Actually, you CAN save it to disk. Export the slideshow to iDVD and iDVD puts a copy of your slideshow — as a MOVIE — in the Movies folder. You can import that movie to iMovie if you want. Or use QuickTime Pro to export it in a compressed format to share with friends.
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missing a good way of saving the project. I have
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You can export the iMovie project to any kind of QuickTime movie you want, large, small or anything in between. High quality, low quality or whatever.
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You're welcome. Good luck on your project.
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Theoretically, they should both look the same, considering they are both vector-based programs, correct?
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Andy -- Chicago wrote:
> Fireworks 8 -- PC
>
> My text looks very unclear after export. However, they
look great in the 4-up
> preview windows in any of the export formats.
>
> This is with a wide variety of fonts (including basics
like Ariel, Verdana,
> etc.) and with or without bold, italics, etc. My font
sizes are in the 16 to
> 30 size range. It also doesn't seem to matter which
anti-alias setting I use.
>
> If I go all the way to 96 font size with anti-alias,
then I can get clear
> fonts.
>
> This has happened with every graphic I have created
since buying this
> application about 1 month ago. For most of that time, I
thought it was either
> just part of the deal or I didn't know how to tweak the
settings. Then I
> realized that they looked great in the preview window
with various export
> formats, so it must be something else.
>
>
>

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As you suggested, I am attaching several screen shots. In the first one you can see how I set up my preset. I used "Custom Name" and "Counter" with a dot between the two drag ins, followed by "D90". I also have a dot to seperate the 8 digits in the Custom Name and make it easier to read.
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