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DESCRIPTION
Silk enables the Quartz text rendering and smoothing introduced in Mac OS X 10.1.5 in all Carbon applications. This means antialiased text in Netscape, Mozilla, and many others. Why wait for developers to update their Carbon applications when you can get the silky smooth text everywhere, right now? Moreover, it can substitute one font with another in your applications, change the theme font (the font used to display menus, window titles, and other interface elements)
Features:
- Substitutes fonts in the applications.
- Changes the default theme font to any other font.
- Enforces the minimum font size setting.
- Enables the Quartz text rendering in all running Carbon applications, such as Netscape, Mozilla and many others.
- Exclude list feature allows you to exclude certain applications so they work as before, if the antialiased text there looks bad.
- Convenient drop button in the Silk preference pane to quickly detect if a particular application is Carbon or not.
- Implemented as an easy-to-use preference pane.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.1.4:
- Silk now runs on Mac OS X 10.5.
- Dropped Mac OS X 10.3 support. Silk now requires Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later.
- No longer dynamically loads Objective-C.
- Moved a lot of code to the awesomely awesome CoreText APIs (10.5 only).
- Adjusted some code so it can be moved to CoreText in the future.
- Attempted to make Cocoa applications respect the baseline of a font when a custom theme font is used.
- Note: Classic is not supported in Mac OS X 10.5 and the fonts in the Classic fonts folder will not be loaded by Mac OS X. You may have to adjust your Silk settings to address any missing fonts.
- Updated to APE 2.5, UI 3.7.1, and SCR 1.5
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later.
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| Developer: | Unsanity LLC |
| Downloads: | 21,780 |
| - Version d/l: | 2,726 |
| Utilities: | System |
| License: | Shareware |
| Date: | 29 Aug 2008 |
| Platform: | PPC/Intel |
| Price: | $10.00 |
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| Silk User Reviews (23 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Feb 16 2010 |
WIMG I wait for the SnowLeopard compatible version!
(Version 2.1.4) | |
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 | Feb 18 2010 |
MCUSR No updates since Aug 2008. He either died or doesn't give a damn. Wonder whom I've paid and why.
(Version 2.1.4) | |
| Dec 12 2009 |
MCUSR Any chance of Snow Leopard support some time soon?
(Version 2.1.4) | |
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 | Feb 27 2008 |
CABRON Simply as already said: my menu bar becomes transparent now on unsupported hardware without any performance issues. This accidentally ultra feature could be part of an extra haxie. And about the custom font themes I'll wait too for a better usage of this one for the next versions.
(Version 2.1.4b1) | |
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| Feb 26 2008 |
MEAGAIN Great job Unsanity! This gives me my transparent menu bar back on my unsupported flashed Radeon 9200! Apple System Profiler says "Core Image: Software" but there at the top of the screen is that beauty from the Leopard betas… I've wondered about ASP saying "software" rather than "not supported" and finally that mystery is solved! There's no way I'll find a Radeon 9600 or 9800 for $10 so this is one Haxie that is definitely worth paying for. Four stars from me and five when the Theme Font feature works the same as it does in Tiger. (i.e. Enabling Custom Theme Font but not selecting one causes the default Lucida font to be rendered much better)
(Version 2.1.4b1) | |
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| Feb 26 2008 |
GRYPHONENT Nice to see Unsanity return to life... but is there any app that doesn't crash under Leopard with the new haxies installed?
(Version 2.1.4b1) | |
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| Feb 26 2008 |
SPLUNK23 Finder, Safari, Preview, Apple System Profiler and Disk Utility all seemed to work. Then I rebooted into Tiger but I don't see any reason for other Apps not to work either.
(Version 2.1.4b1) | |
| Feb 27 2008 |
RADDLE Yes. WindowShade working fine on my two machines (one intel, one not) running a wide variety of software. FontCard good except for an apparent conflict with FontExplorer under Intel.
(Version 2.1.4b1) | |
| Aug 31 2008 |
APIKOROS I'm using Unsanity's FruitMenu and MenuMaster (and APE, of course), plus the ICeCoffEE and SmartScroll haxies, with OS 10.5.4, on a 2006 Intel Core Duo iMac... and nothing crashes.
(Version 2.1.4) | |
| Feb 26 2008 |
FFASS Welcome back!! I use Silk to change my Mac's default font from that fugly Lucida Grande to plain 'ol Arial, a clean easy-to-read font. This update works has worked fine for me so far under 10.5 on my Mac Pro - no crashing or weird behavior.
(Version 2.1.4b1) | |
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| May 31 2006 |
RAY16 Will this update 2.1.2 running 10.2.8 Jaguar?
(Version 2.1.3) | |
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 | Oct 23 2005 |
NEKO i have a registered version, but it still keeps displaying the nag picture every so often. why? i restarted several times after registering and it still wont go away.
(Version 2.1.2) | |
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| Jun 22 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Woo Hoo. Works with Tiger. We're back in business. Great app - simply a necessity if you're an Appleworks user. Since Tiger, I've been going mad with TextEdit and even Word, so to be able to use Appleworks with smooth, readable text again is life saving.
(Version 2.1) | |
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| Jun 21 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Unfortunately, if you have more than one type of App installed, ie. Filemaker Pro, it doesn't add the proper one to the application list. Same problems with Quickbooks Pro 6 adding Quickbooks Pro 2005 Mac to the list instead.
(Version 2.1) | |
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