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Anti Aliased fonts kick ass!!!!!
slave:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1.10/
Download those fonts and install them in your ~/.fonts directory. Then go under font preferences and change the fonts to those. It would be a lie to say OS X looks much better than that!
billy_gates:
quote:Originally posted by Linux User #5225982375:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1.10/
Download those fonts and install them in your ~/.fonts directory. Then go under font preferences and change the fonts to those. It would be a lie to say OS X looks much better than that!
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havn't tried to boot into linux in a while, recently sacrificed its swap partition to install BeOS. I'm not sure if it can detect that the swap is gone and reformat it. Or if it will just give an error. We shall see.
Do you have screenshots. I also find it strange how you need specific fonts to look good, in OSX it makes all fonts look good.
slave:
Here's my desktop showing off some fonts:
http://www.gothar.netfirms.com/desktop.png
OS X comes with some high quality fonts; try installing some lame X fonts like helvetica and sans and you'll see the difference. They are fuzzier and don't hint well at small sizes.
edit: you'll have to wget the image; netfirms uses referrer tricks
[ May 03, 2003: Message edited by: Linux User #5225982375 ]
billy_gates:
quote:Originally posted by Linux User #5225982375:
Here's my desktop showing off some fonts:
http://www.gothar.netfirms.com/desktop.png
OS X comes with some high quality fonts; try installing some lame X fonts like helvetica and sans and you'll see the difference. They are fuzzier and don't hint well at small sizes.
edit: you'll have to wget the image; netfirms uses referrer tricks
[ May 03, 2003: Message edited by: Linux User #5225982375 ]
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It so pissed me off when OSX didn't come with wget, but I liked it so much I installed it with fink a while ago so no biggy.
I think helvetica looks great in OSX, I use that for just about everything.
I still think OSX looks better, the antialising there makes everything look like it is bold and everything that is not bold doesn't look very good. For example, look at the text in your minimized windows and the text in your address bar in Mozilla. Its antialiased, but I don't think it looks very good. I have a screenshot comparing some certain things with arrows to directly connect important items.
http://www.skinner.com/jeffberg/files/aacompare.jpg
You can't honestly say after that that OSX's AA is inferiror to X11's or gnome or whatever AA's in Linux.
I don't want to fight with you, just my preference vs yours. this is not the kind of material for a flame war so I don't want to start one.
slave:
I personally think the fonts in that OS X screenshot look awefully fuzzy at small sizes. But I am a biased freetype supporter so don't take what I say too seriously. It may look better on your screen anyway since you might be using some fancy LCD display, wheras I use a CRT one.
And a note: "Helvetica" on OS X is most likely a high quality truetype font, not the rubbishy font that ships with X. They are both named the same but I'm pretty sure X's helvetica is totally different.
[ May 04, 2003: Message edited by: Linux User #5225982375 ]
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