Want Good Looking Text In Mac OS X Carbon Apps? Get Silk!

For years, the QuickDraw component of Mac OS provided common display and printing functionality to applications. Like many other things Apple, this was revolutionary at the time, but as the years passes, has come to show its age. Fortunately, Mac OS X includes a new model called Quartz, which provides cool features like text smoothing and anti-aliasing. Unfortunately, this is only available to Cocoa (not Carbon) applications, until now