The fact is that windows + mactype offers the best font rendering on any platform. How are things looking on your side? Anyone finding any fixes?
I don't particularly like desktop linux anymore. If this is the direction win desktop is taking (that is, more apps being unaccessible to mactype's hack). Right now any office 2013 app is unusable on a big monitor with low DPI (for me).
Using it, plus mactype is saving me.īut mactype is abandonware, and it's not problem-free.
Chrome and mailbird do have a fallback option. More and more apps are moving to the new rendering, and only some provide an option to 'disable graphics-accelerated rendering' or some such. With ImageMagick I am only able to use the first font inside the collection, which is MS Gothic. This font is saved, together with its variations MS PGothic and MS UI Gothic, inside a TrueType Collection. Things are getting iffy in windowsland re: fonts.Ĭleartype getting replaced by directwrite (or whatever the new tech for font rendering is called the horrible one I call it ). While I was working on supporting Japanese fonts I stumbled upon the MS Gothic font, which is a default font in Windows 10.
Office 2013 drops cleartype, fonts a disaster. I think I'll stick with the ordinary Windows system + ClearType ON, and just put up with the glary "flat" design of the MS Office and OneNote GUIs. MacType didn't seem to play very nicely with some of my proggies and they kept crashing. I have put the AltText below the image of each of the 4 samples (see below), so you can see the errors/omissions yourself. Interestingly, OneNote gets different errors with its OCR (AltText). I tried some of the other settings in MacType, but they didn't make for any improvement over the Default setting with ClearType ON. ClearType ON in both cases seems best for the eyes. Appearance: MacType (ClearType OFF) Default setting:ġ and 3 look the same. Appearance: MacType (ClearType ON) Default setting:Ĥ. Appearance: Ordinary system (ClearType OFF):ģ. Appearance: Ordinary system (ClearType ON):Ģ. I tried it 4 ways: (System is HP ENVY 14 laptop with Win7-64 Home Premium.)ġ. I only this week got around to trying MacType out. Microsoft, never a company to pay for something when it didn't have to, took Apple up on their offer - and the rest is history. Apple figured the best way to fight Adobe was to adopt a 'scorched earth' strategy and basically pull the rug out from under Adobe with their own free standard. This all happened when Apple was battling with Adobe over Adobe's refusal to negotiate more reasonable licensing terms.
That's the only reason Microsoft adopted TrueType to begin with.Īpple had developed TrueType - and gave it to Microsoft for free - to help establish TTF as the new de facto type technology.
Especially on something like fonts, which they've never been to concerned about to begin with - other than to not have to license Type-1 postscript font technology from Adobe. But considering how receptive they've been to complaints and push-back on things like that 'ribbon' interface and Metro, - or their refusal to even consider bringing back the start button (at least until recently) - I wouldn't hold out much hope that a write-in campaign will matter all that much to the folks in Redmond.