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I love my Mac, but there is one thing I don't love. Font rendering on the Mac just doesn't seem as crisp as it is on Windows. I would love to find a way to improve it on the Mac. This has bothered me since I got this Mac five months ago. The last time I posted an article on this, someone sent a negative user reputation hit on me, saying that it was an obvious attempt to start a flame war. It wasn't then and it isn't now. A while later this is still bothering me and so I have decided to post again on the topic.
Before posting this question again however, I have done some homework. I took the same web page (my own) and got screen captures of it as rendered in Firefox on each of Mac OS X, Arch Linux 0.7.2 and Win XP. Here they are, in order:
http://www.campbellware.com/web-font/web-font-mac.png
http://www.campbellware.com/web-font/web-font-linux.png
http://www.campbellware.com/web-font/web-font-winxp.png
I would call these "good" (Mac), "better" (Linux) and finally "best" (Win XP). I am referring in particular to the descriptive text on the page, not on the headers and labels, which look pretty much OK on all of them. That text gets crisper and better looking as you progress from Mac to Linux to Win XP.
I would like to be able to have the text look that good on the Mac. I have messed around extensively with the System Preferences, Appearance, Font Smoothing Style, and have discovered that either Light or Automatic produce the best results. Still, the results are not as good as either Linux or Windows.
Is there another program out that would allow me more control of font rendering, so that I could crisp it up to the same level as Windows?
Thanks, and please, no negative hits on my user rep. This is not an attempt to start a flame war - it is an attempt to improve font rendering on my Mac!
Before posting this question again however, I have done some homework. I took the same web page (my own) and got screen captures of it as rendered in Firefox on each of Mac OS X, Arch Linux 0.7.2 and Win XP. Here they are, in order:
http://www.campbellware.com/web-font/web-font-mac.png
http://www.campbellware.com/web-font/web-font-linux.png
http://www.campbellware.com/web-font/web-font-winxp.png
I would call these "good" (Mac), "better" (Linux) and finally "best" (Win XP). I am referring in particular to the descriptive text on the page, not on the headers and labels, which look pretty much OK on all of them. That text gets crisper and better looking as you progress from Mac to Linux to Win XP.
I would like to be able to have the text look that good on the Mac. I have messed around extensively with the System Preferences, Appearance, Font Smoothing Style, and have discovered that either Light or Automatic produce the best results. Still, the results are not as good as either Linux or Windows.
Is there another program out that would allow me more control of font rendering, so that I could crisp it up to the same level as Windows?
Thanks, and please, no negative hits on my user rep. This is not an attempt to start a flame war - it is an attempt to improve font rendering on my Mac!