There seems to be nothing I can do about Cocoa's "Unique Font Handling" I've tried and tried and tried. The most I can do is just disable those fonts all together.
Silk 2.0 will be the final of Silk 1.5 (Silk 1.5 alpha has been pulled from this site.)
So now. Should I name the new Silk "Silk Pro", "Silk Extreme", "Silk Plus", or "Silk PEP (Pro Extreme Plus)"?
The old silk 1.1 will *not* be updated. There is no way to separate the current code base without making it unmanageable (preference system and the like). However, when the new Silk expires, the features that were in Silk 1.1 (And the new "Prefer Outline Fonts") will *not* be turned off. This has little to do with generosity and more to do with my laziness in finding a way to implement it. ;)
I am not sure the demo period of Silk 2.0. It could be anywhere between 5-15 days.
Please, which one of the above names do you prefer? I personally prefer Silk PEP because it mocks the others.
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rosyna > I personally prefer Silk PEP because it mocks the others.
While not a Silk user myself, I'm with you on that one. Reading it's press releases all over the Mac web will be awesome. :D
Posted by: Mike Zornek.com on March 13, 2003 12:32 AMi don't even know what Silk is yet, but i definitely like Silk PEP the best. please use that!
Posted by: mreks on March 13, 2003 1:08 AMI know that sarcasm is poorly translated on the web, so I'll retract my earlier suggestion of 'Extreme'. That would be terrible. Terrible like a bonzai kitten.
On the other Hand, Silk Pro Extreme Plus (or Extreme Pro Plus, or Pro Plus Extreme) would rock my socks... or something to that effect.
Posted by: Chris on March 13, 2003 2:40 AMNow THAT's a good name.
(In all seriousness though, Rosyna, "Silk" and "Silk Lite" are probably your best options)
Posted by: Chris on March 13, 2003 3:26 AMI agree, Silk (for version 2) and Silk lite (for the old Silk 1.1) is the simple way forward. Silly additions to product names is not a benefit to the consumer. SafeShred being a prime example ? it has three entries on Version Tracker:
SafeShred Free 2.0.1
SafeShred Pro 2.0.1
SafeShred Xtreme 2.0.1
Each version downloads the same file! the only difference being if you pay more you get more features activated. Need I go on?
Stick with just Silk.
Rant over.
Posted by: Alex on March 13, 2003 7:19 AMI agree with Chris. I say the PEP version call simplt 'Silk' and call the free one 'Silk Free' or 'Lite' or whatever.
Posted by: Ken on March 13, 2003 9:10 AMSince it'll revert to 1.1 functionality after the beta period, I see no reason to change the name at all.
Posted by: Rincewind on March 13, 2003 10:25 AMBy gum I think he's done it! Amazing how the thread loses you though, isn't it? O! What a tangled web we weave!
Posted by: Chris on March 13, 2003 12:56 PMI think you should change the name from Silk to something else.
After all, Silk was first a very limited program that only activated smoothing.
Now it does so much more.
Posted by: David on March 13, 2003 4:36 PMWhy not Royal Silk as it will be a cut above the original?
Posted by: Steve on March 14, 2003 5:06 AMSilk PEP sounds like a soft drink. But I like it. Good name.
Posted by: Jason Anderson on March 14, 2003 4:15 PMSilk was/is a nice name because it described what the program did...it made the rough fonts smooth as silk... :)
what about bilk? a synonym for the word trick, as in magic - slight of hand, since the primary function of the haxie will now be font switching.
I realize the normal use of the word bilk is not very nice but I just thought I would throw this in....
I would keep Silk as is, and call the new haxie Bilk.
Posted by: Amanuel T. on March 15, 2003 1:38 AMPlease, please, PLEASE write a "haxie" to *DISABLE* the Quartz text rendering and smoothing EVERYWHERE in OS 10.2.4!!! What a disasterous, undisableable "feature."
Posted by: bachelorbob on March 16, 2003 7:22 AMDisable the anti-aliasing... I can't imagine why, from what little I've seen of aliased text on MacOS X having the entire interface like that would make me puke =).
Posted by: Rincewind on March 16, 2003 10:32 AMSilk Platinum Ultra Rockin' Stupendous Extreme, or Silk PURSE.
[sorry. these things just come over me.]
Posted by: Tim Merritt on March 19, 2003 4:30 PMPowerSilk could be a name for an even more advanced version of Silk
Posted by: wolfo on March 25, 2003 11:38 AMKeep comments on topic. If a comment is unrelated to this post, it may be removed or moderated.