Sidebar; a real joke; DEAL BREAKER FOR LEOPARD

The Sidebar is impossible to read. I am 58; use special glasses for work on my
23" Hp Monitor on my dual 2.0 G5; MBP 15".
I can't read the sidebar. The Icons and Font size is RIDICULES; I NEED TO BE ABLE TO MAKE THOSE SO I CAN READ THEM.
Apple are you listening?
This is a deal breaker for me. I have installed Leopard on a Dual G5, MBP ; 20" Intel Imac. I will be going to my Carbon Copy Cloner backup and move them all back to OSX 10.4.10.
So SAD; SAD; SAD. Especially when this where Apple usually shines.

Download "TinkerTool" from www.bresink.de
Ignore the Warning about possible incompatibilites - the program will not harm your system.
Then, in the "Font smoothing" options, set to:
"Turn of font smoothing for font sizes 144 pt and smaller"
close the application
log out and log back in.
or/and, if this still Works:
Create a Directory in your home Folder called ".MacOSX"
inside there, create a textfile named "environment.plist" with the following content:
<pre>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>QDTEXT_ANTIALIASING</key>
<string>0</string>
<key>QDTEXT_MINSIZE</key>
<string>144</string>
</dict>
</plist>
</pre>
log out and log back in.
Does it look better then ? Dont know if that helps but give it a try.
Btw. I thought I did hear something about 10.5 offering "resolution independent" display - but find nothing related to this.
Anyone else noticed this too ?

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I started using Photoshop way back on Windows 3. I started using Indesign when Quark was the darling of printing shops. I switched to Dreamweaver after less than happy experiences with competing software . . . and HTML5 wasn't even a blip in the common imagination. Now, I own Creative Suite Master Collection 6.
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The writing was on the wall when Adobe stopped publishing print manuals. They must have eliminated a host of printing and distribution costs with that move. Now, they seem to have eliminated the cost of publishing and distributing DVDs. Sound move . . . from a CFO's point of view, I would think.
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