turning off anti-aliasing for certain programs?

[xanis]

Question: Is there a way to turn off text anti-aliasing for certain programs? I don't want to disable it system-wide, just in some of my text editors (Flash and Coda to be specific) where soft edges on the small fonts gives me headaches when I code for any long period of time.

 

[Patranus]

have you tried to bump up the setting so it doesn't do it on that small of text?

 

[xanis]

have you tried to bump up the setting so it doesn't do it on that small of text?

I have, but I don't want it to be system-wide, only for specific programs.

 

[kamikazekyle]

I think text-based aliasing is something that can only be managed on a system level.

Have you tried actually tweaking the alias strength (not the minimum size)? I dislike OS X's font aliasing compared to Windows 7, but I found if I changed it from the default to light it was much better (so long as my PPI stayed high enough).

 

[xanis]

I think text-based aliasing is something that can only be managed on a system level.

Have you tried actually tweaking the alias strength (not the minimum size)? I dislike OS X's font aliasing compared to Windows 7, but I found if I changed it from the default to light it was much better (so long as my PPI stayed high enough).

Not really sure how to do that on a program-by-program basis. I assume it has something to do with the plist files in the application preferences folders, but I haven't really messed around with it yet.

 

[speg]

Text mate has a preference for AA in it's pref pane.