I'm posting this now since we'll all be attending WWDC starting Sunday (today, but in like 12 hours or so).

Please note the demo period is intentionally short. 4 hours apart. I think the Dutch are a very attractive people.

This is the first beta release of Silk 2.1. This is primarily for Tiger compatibility.

TinkerTool is no longer necessary to get Silk to completely change the theme font in Cocoa applications. Fear, comprehensively.

I've also added an option to disable antialiasing. Only one person ever requested this "feature" and I have no idea what they were on to want to have that feature. While I was working on Labels X 1.7, I was playing around and found an easy way to disable antialiasing, so I added it to silk. Nothing like rubbing burlap all over your body, eh?

If anyone can test on 10.3.9, it would be MUCH appreciated. 10.2.8 support has been sadly dropped. Too many things have changed inside silk to test thoroughly for support. Yeah, pretend that makes sense.

I'm also interested to see what happens if you have a theme font enabled for the finder and download something to the desktop.

Things I need tested:

• Make sure that all the options can be turned off and on for an application without it causing a crash (it will cause some weird display issues, but nothing serious).
• If you are replacing a theme font, don't forget to add a substitution rule. Even though this shouldn't be necessary, it is for some applications that don't respect the Appearance Manager. IT DEMANDS RESPECT!
• Make sure that all the options actually work. Especially theme fonts for preferences and other weirdo dialogs that developers created.

Version 2.1b2

• Dropped Mac OS X 10.2.x support.
• The font panel in the preference pane now only shows the font names and no longer shows any effects or sizes that aren't valid for Silk.
• No longer need to setup a substitution rule to get the location field in Safari to respect the theme font.
• Fixed a problem that prevented newly installed fonts from appearing in the Silk preference pane.

Version 2.0.7b1

• This is a free update for registered users.
• Tiger Compatible
• No longer crashes iCal 2.0
• Added an option to disable antialiasing for fonts. Because I can.
• New Registration System. Registered users are able to click the Update Now button to quickly and easily update their registration. The new serial number works across users so if you have permissions to write to /Library, all users will get the new SN automatically.
• TinkerTool is no longer necessary to get Silk to completely change the theme font in Cocoa applications.

Get it at: http://www.unsanity.net/beta/silk-21b2.dmg (2.05 megs, I don't know why this one is smaller than the last one)

 Posted by rosyna at 12:52 AM | Comments (10) | TrackBack (0)
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Comments

i'm rubbing burlap all over my body as we speak rosyna.
it burns so good.

Posted by: shao on June 5, 2005 7:17 AM

Man, that's one ugly-ass screenshot!

Posted by: Jason Harris on June 5, 2005 9:25 AM

THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!!!

Have a great time at WWDC.

Posted by: 8x40 on June 5, 2005 11:01 AM

So far no problems, but there are so many combinations of options that it will take a while to check them all out.

Posted by: Geoff Gilbert on June 6, 2005 10:35 PM

Anti-aliasing is an ugly workaround to make inappropriate fonts readable on low-resolution monitors. I look forward to the day when all monitors are of high enough resolution to make it unnecessary, or software developers are smart enough to use fonts designed for on-screen use (or properly hinted fonts).

...never gonna happen, I know...

Posted by: Brian on June 7, 2005 7:40 AM

2.1b2 appears to work well for me. Once again I can see clearly through my Silk-colored glasses.

Posted by: CREB on June 8, 2005 4:36 PM

What's wrong with Dutch people?

Posted by: Tom on June 10, 2005 2:12 AM

Silk 2.1b2 seems to work fine in everything except Wolfram CalcCenter 3, in which fonts are only antialiased if the view magnification is set to 125%. It also seems not to work for 14pt typefaces, but does work for 12 pt typefaces.

Not sure if this is a CC3 issue, or a Silk issue!

Posted by: Nick Green on June 11, 2005 1:08 AM

....I've also added an option to disable antialiasing...

This really appreciated! Helpful for web browsers when using small font sizes... and for MS Excel.

Posted by: Sam W. on June 13, 2005 5:50 AM

shouldn't the compatibility page be updated?

Posted by: joe hwang on June 14, 2005 8:16 AM

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