Oliver Sturm's weblog - Latest comments on Fuzzy fonts in MindManager X5 http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/?disp=comments en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 In response to: Fuzzy fonts in MindManager X5 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:59:36 +0000 eric.d [Visitor] c62235@http://www.sodthis.com/b2evolution/ Hi! (I already posted the following in the thread at Mindjet forum, but perhapts somebody reads here and not there)<br /><br />I was sooo happy to find a solution for these antialiasing problem which I have on my notebook screen (1450*1024) for years now.<br /><br />Unfortunatly the Rapidshare-link does not work any longer. Does anyone have an alternative download location, or can anyone send the patch to my email adress efgs@arcor.de ?<br /><br />Many thanks in advance (and please excuse my english language mistakes)
I was sooo happy to find a solution for these antialiasing problem which I have on my notebook screen (1450*1024) for years now.

Unfortunatly the Rapidshare-link does not work any longer. Does anyone have an alternative download location, or can anyone send the patch to my email adress efgs@arcor.de ?

Many thanks in advance (and please excuse my english language mistakes)]]> http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2005/08/12/mindmanager-fuzzy-fonts#c62235 In response to: Fuzzy fonts in MindManager X5 Sun, 15 Oct 2006 13:16:55 +0000 psionic [Visitor] c57221@http://www.sodthis.com/b2evolution/ a patch for Mindmanager v6.1.894 fixing antialiased text: <br /><br />&lt;a href=&quot;http://rapidshare.de/files/36836819/mindmanager_noantialias.zip.html&quot; title=&quot;download patch&quot;&gt;<br /><br />more info:<br />&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mindjet.com/uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3896#3896&quot; title=&quot;mindjet forum&quot;&gt;
<a href="http://rapidshare.de/files/36836819/mindmanager_noantialias.zip.html" title="download patch">

more info:
<a href="http://www.mindjet.com/uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3896#3896" title="mindjet forum">]]> http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2005/08/12/mindmanager-fuzzy-fonts#c57221 In response to: Fuzzy fonts in MindManager X5 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:00:13 +0000 msmouse [Visitor] c22943@http://www.sodthis.com/b2evolution/ This problem is more serious on asian ideographs. In such language like Chinese and Japanese, characters are more complicated so that they are more fuzzy displayed. http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2005/08/12/mindmanager-fuzzy-fonts#c22943 In response to: Fuzzy fonts in MindManager X5 Thu, 13 Oct 2005 07:15:01 +0000 Oliver Sturm [Visitor] c3409@http://www.sodthis.com/b2evolution/ That's great! The more people talk about this, the better the chances to get it fixed eventually - I hope. http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2005/08/12/mindmanager-fuzzy-fonts#c3409 In response to: Fuzzy fonts in MindManager X5 Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:13:55 +0000 Telmo A. [Visitor] c3376@http://www.sodthis.com/b2evolution/ Well, I was testing MM6 but meanwhile put it aside, because of the hard-coded anti-aliasing's awfulness, but not only. Call me a dinosaur, but MM - even now integrated with Outlook - still can't replace a few features of Ecco that I can't live without. Not to mention that it uses up ten times as much memory. Still, MM is a good tool, full of potential for improvement and, following your suggestion, I posted about the anti-aliasing annoyance in the Improvement Ideas section of their forum. I took the liberty of referring to the older posts you pointed out above and also to this blog entry. It's <a href="http://www.mindjet.com/us/forum/viewtopic.php?t=153" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br />Thanks for your comment on the jumpy scrolling: it prompted me to try MM in another machine and realise that it behaved differently. Some delays with big maps, but no interruptions... Still, I couldn't solve the problem in my machine at work, which is actually a better one (in terms of processor and memory).<br /><br />Cheers. here.

Thanks for your comment on the jumpy scrolling: it prompted me to try MM in another machine and realise that it behaved differently. Some delays with big maps, but no interruptions... Still, I couldn't solve the problem in my machine at work, which is actually a better one (in terms of processor and memory).

Cheers.]]> http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2005/08/12/mindmanager-fuzzy-fonts#c3376 In response to: Fuzzy fonts in MindManager X5 Tue, 04 Oct 2005 14:19:44 +0000 Oliver Sturm [Visitor] c3267@http://www.sodthis.com/b2evolution/ You are right about the fonts, they haven't changed anything in that regard. Have you contacted their support about this again? I haven't done it myself yet, but the new release is probably the best opportunity to tell them about old problems again.<br /><br />What I can't reproduce is the problem with the scrolling. I have a pretty big map (~300 topics) and I'm scrolling around in it without seeing anything that would qualify as an interruption - I do see that scrolling is slightly slower when there's more text visible, but that's no big thing, hardly noticeable really. This is MM6 Pro.
What I can't reproduce is the problem with the scrolling. I have a pretty big map (~300 topics) and I'm scrolling around in it without seeing anything that would qualify as an interruption - I do see that scrolling is slightly slower when there's more text visible, but that's no big thing, hardly noticeable really. This is MM6 Pro.]]> http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2005/08/12/mindmanager-fuzzy-fonts#c3267 In response to: Fuzzy fonts in MindManager X5 Tue, 04 Oct 2005 14:01:43 +0000 Telmo A. [Visitor] c3266@http://www.sodthis.com/b2evolution/ I'm trying MM Pro 6 and, like before, there doesn't seem to be a way of switching off the anti-aliasing. Also like before, the Map View doesn't react to changes in the method used by Windows to smooth the edges of screen fonts. It's a shame. Another thing I hated in MM5 and which remains in MM6 are intermittent interruptions when scrolling maps. Try to scroll a big map using Ctrl + Arrow-keys and you'll see what I mean. The same happens using the mouse wheel. Long ago, I reported this to MindJet, received an answer saying they had been able to reproduce the problem, but that was all. http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2005/08/12/mindmanager-fuzzy-fonts#c3266 In response to: Fuzzy fonts in MindManager X5 Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:26:05 +0000 Oliver Sturm [Visitor] c2548@http://www.sodthis.com/b2evolution/ News: I got another mail from the first support contact. Finally I understand: I got it all wrong, this is not a bug at all. It's in fact my monitor that makes me see this. Here's the essence of the latest mail, translated as accurately as possible from German:<br /><br /><blockquote><br />With regard to the anti-aliasing function: this is not a bug. The problem is that the smoothing of the fonts is not being displayed as focused as it should by a small minority of monitors. So the anti-aliasing is deliberate, which may be possible to switch off in a future version of MindManager X5.<br /></blockquote>

With regard to the anti-aliasing function: this is not a bug. The problem is that the smoothing of the fonts is not being displayed as focused as it should by a small minority of monitors. So the anti-aliasing is deliberate, which may be possible to switch off in a future version of MindManager X5.
]]> http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2005/08/12/mindmanager-fuzzy-fonts#c2548 In response to: Fuzzy fonts in MindManager X5 Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:49:04 +0000 marc hoffman [Visitor] c2543@http://www.sodthis.com/b2evolution/ Oliver,<br /><br />ah yes, now i see it. it seems indeed that they are doing their own (pretty crappy) smoothing... :(
ah yes, now i see it. it seems indeed that they are doing their own (pretty crappy) smoothing... :(]]> http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2005/08/12/mindmanager-fuzzy-fonts#c2543 In response to: Fuzzy fonts in MindManager X5 Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:29:16 +0000 Oliver Sturm [Visitor] c2530@http://www.sodthis.com/b2evolution/ Another thing I should report to keep everybody updated is that I had another unexpected reply to my first email from Mindjet. An "End-User Support Representative" mailed me to let me know that my problem had been an issue for several of their customers and that it "has been approached by our development team for future versions of MindManager." He's careful to promise nothing, though, so I think this is really only marginally better. http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2005/08/12/mindmanager-fuzzy-fonts#c2530