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Han­nah Takes the Stairs ipod

Com­pare the screen-shot on the top with the one below. Identical you say? Well almost. Notice how the bot­tom one is slightly crisper and easier to read.

Both are blurry to an extent due to some­thing called sub­pixel ren­der­ing down­load Inter­ven­tion  — where the OS increases the appar­ent res­ol­u­tion of your screen by subtly filling in the blanks. There are com­pet­ing philo­sophies on how best to achieve this — Apple prefers to faith­fully recre­ate fonts on-screen, whereas Microsoft prefers to make them more read­able. Which is super­ior is a mat­ter of preference.

The prob­lem with Pages so far has been that it ignores the sys­tem pref­er­ence, res­ult­ing in dis­play of text in an unac­cept­ably blurry fash­ion. In the images above this may seem like anal-retentive hair-splitting, but if you’re deal­ing with large bod­ies of text, say for example, in an essay, the blur­ri­ness becomes very fatiguing. This is now thank­fully fixed. Thanks Apple! And it’ll only cost $129.