Re: Mac OS X font problems

Anton Solovyev <anton@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

matt neuburg wrote:

You might not be able to get that. You may be interested in my eBook,
Take Control of Customizing Tiger; I have some suggestions for improving
your text-reading experience. But some of those suggestions include
changing your mind-set. Large anti-aliased fonts are very easy to read,
provided you stop straining to bring them into focus. I am sympathetic,
since Mac OS 9 had tiny, non-anti-aliased fonts, and I liked that. But
I've gotten used to the way it is now.

Thank you, I'll check it out.

The default Max OS X fonts, besides being large, too wide-spaced and
fuzzy, have serious problems with Cyrillic letters which I must have. I
have tried multiple combinations of "normal" and fonts having "CE"

Okay, you're not understanding how fonts work on the Mac. Fonts and
character sets have nothing to do with each other. Mac OS X is Unicode.
No matter what font you "use", if you have any font at all that has a
needed character, you will see that character. And believe me, you've
got Cyrillic characters. So if you are not seeing characters correctly
in your browser, that is a flaw in your browser, or in your encoding
settings, or possibly in the web site. Again, I've discussed this matter
at length elsewhere. As Alice said, an example of a problem page would
be helpful. m.

I have not played with Windows TTF's much, so I am really not sure what
was the deal. They were anti-aliased too, so I did not dig any deeper.

Here is a screenshot from Mac:

http://www.solovyev.com/mac.jpg

and here is what I am using normally:

http://www.solovyev.com/linux.jpg

One more thing: I can stand AA fonts in menus and every place, but not
in text-oriented apps like news reader or Web browser...

Apparently, people at Apple realaize this too, since Terminal has pretty
decent raster font of an ok size (Monaco). Not as good as misc-fixed-
(xterm/xfree) or b&h-lucida-typewriter- (dtterm/solaris), but ok.

I see the difference, but I don't see why the anti-aliased one is worse.
On my machine, Monaco 9 and 10 are not anti-aliased. It must be up to
the individual font. You can turn off anti-aliasing generally below a
certain size in the Appearance system prefs, and you can get finer
control if you use TinkerTool. That's all I can think of to help. m.


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