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Why will Text Edit and other apps prevent me from choosing text colors?
I have had a Genius take a look at my MacBook, no one has offered ANY support that works. Forgive me if I'm learning how to describe the issue, but here is my problem with TextEdit, Apple Mail and ...
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Font Smoothing Woes
I just connected a Dell U2410 external monitor to my rMBP (OS X 10.8.2), via a "Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter". As noted frequently on the web, the display is horrible.
I've read a bunch of links ...
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How to switch off subpixel antialiasing in Safari?
Is there a way to permanently switch off subpixel antialiasing in Safari OSX 10.8?
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Sublime Text 2 in OSX: all fonts are bold regardless of theme or font
I have a weird problem on mac (OSX 10.7): any theme or font I choose - all fonts appear in bold. I sync all settings with Dropbox and on Windows 7 and Ubuntu the fonts are normal.
Don't know if it's ...
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How does the OS X font fallback system work?
I'm trying to design a font containing symbols for internal use in our organisation.
I've created a font using this tutorial, and I've assigned a symbol to the unicode position 0xF600. This lies ...
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Strange font weight in Google Chrome
I realised that on my 13" MacBook Pro (mid 2012), Google Chrome renders fonts with opacity in a different way than other browsers.
This is what it looks like in Chrome:
Notice that the second ...
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Font smoothing on external display working badly. (rMBP)
I have attached two external monitors to my retina MacBook Pro:
24" Dell 1920x1200 with HDMI->DVI
19" Samsung 1280x1024 with Thunderbolt->VGA
While non-retina enabled apps look just fine (e.g. ...
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Blurry/aliased text on external LCD in Lion
I have an external LCD hooked up to my MacBook Pro 5,5 running Lion. I have major aliasing on the external monitor in every application. Using the commonly recommended defaults -currentHost write ...
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Web fonts look worse after deleting MS Office
I recently deleted my MS Office 2011 and decided to use only iWork or Libre Office or LaTeX. The problem is, now fonts on all browsers look worse than before. I have no idea why this is so, it only ...
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In Apple Pages, how can I disable italic swashes?
I am laying out a long document in Pages '09 v4.1 (923), using the "Hoefler Text" typeface for the body text. On certain characters (k, e, and others) at the end of an italicized word, the advanced ...
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Problems with font rendering on a MacBook Pro using external 24" LCD
I have a 24" HP LP2475w at my home and 23" Apple Cinema Display at work. Today when I turned on my laptop at work, I noticed that all fonts look perfect (after having an issue with rendering for the ...
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iPad/iPad2 - PDF page rendering speed
I would like to know how long (in milliseconds) does it take for the iPad/iPad2 to render a PDF page. Every page and every PDF are different, of course. I am interested in average figures if you have ...
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PDF rendering - how much is iPad2 faster than iPad?
I read that iPad2 graphics is faster than iPad. I would like to know how much is iPad2 faster than iPad at PDF rendering.
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AppleFontSmoothing Has No Effect On My ViewSonic VX2450
I've followed the advice in these questions and am not having any luck. No matter what I try, the fonts are rendered so poorly on the external monitor.
My environment -
MacBook Pro 15" Early 2011
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Weird renderings of folder names in Finder sidebar
I've just upgraded to OSX Lion from Snow Leopard, and started to notice these today in the sidebar of Finder:
When you click on them, they go back to normal.
What's going on here?
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How to change the font smoothing setting from the command line?
I'm trying to avoid installing lots of software willy-nilly, because like so many Mac users I don't have antivirus software. Case in point, I really like TinkerTool but I'd rather change my system ...
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This PDF displays with question marks instead of letters
Something is wrong with the rendering of this PDF in Preview (or Quick Look). This is how it looks:
I can see it in Adobe Reader on Windows. I'm not sure what font it is using, and I have Office ...
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Weird Font Smoothing Issue
As the title says, I'm seeing a weird font smoothing issue. It appears to happen randomically, mostly in Safari. I don't know exactly how to explain it, so here are a couple of screenshots from ...
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How can I fix broken font-rendering in Safari?
On some sites (especially this one) I cannot read certain parts, there are only A's displayed.
How can I fix this?
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OS X Lion, Safari: could not turn off antialiasing
I had the antialiasing disabled in Safari (5.0?) in Snow Leopard, by setting
defaults write com.apple.Safari AppleAntiAliasingThreshold -int 200
Now I have OS X Lion with Safari 5.1, and that ...
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Can you help me cure font outlines (as opposed to the font itself) showing up in webpages?
I am having some issues with fonts rendering improperly across browsers. Essentially i am just getting outlines, an example can be viewed her.
For example on this page. ...
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All pages in Google Chrome are rendered with a very thin, bad looking serif font
In every later release of Google Chrome (including the just released version 11), all pages are rendered with a very thin, jaggy serif font.
This is how it looks in Chrome 11:
And here is Safari ...
