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I'm always looking for ways to use my little SGI machines, for fun and sometimes education.  

Recently I started looking at Word Processing options thinking maybe I would do a little writing on my O2 or Octane.  I noticed that nekoware Abiword, which is a pretty nice and simple app, doesn't really look that great in terms of screen fonts, there is no apparent antialiasing to the fonts and it just looks well, bleh.  Same with OpenOffice but even worse, like really either something is horribly wrong with my IRIX install (6.5.30) or that app has the ugliest fonts I've ever seen, literally zero antialiasing and the built in fonts are hideously jagged.  

So then I noticed that there was a port of Abiword from SUGU and I proceeded to get that installed, along with claws-mail (The Sylpheed update).  So I guess these use GTK2 vs GTK1 and GTK2 has Anti-aliased fonts, but they are TOO Anti-aliased and look blurry and ugly as hell.

Anyone else struggling with this?  I will try to put together some screenshots to illustrate my concern if I can figure out a good way of doing that.