Text looks terrible!

I just got my new Mac Pro up and running and I'm finding that when I use text (either imported from LiveType or text in FCP) the lettering looks terrible. Very pixelated. I've tried rendering it but that doesn't help. Right now I'm only looking at it on my Cinema Display, but even so, it should look clean, shouldn't it?
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Jamie

Set your viewer and canvas windows to 100%. Right now they are most likely at Fit to window. You are only viewing one field and anything other than 100%.
You do this at the view menu top of either viewer or canvas, depending on which window you are using, and it is the left button of a group of three buttons in the center of the window.

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