Apple is supposed to be the standard for graphic designers. So this week, I bought one.
I'm part of a project to put together a rather large web page, and I'm having some designing problems because of OSX.
First, Tahoma, one of the web's most popular fonts, wasn't part of my original font package. So I installed a 30-day trial of Microsoft Office to get it.
Now, I want to turn off font smoothing on my mac so that it renders text the way that most users see it. Although testing is necessary with all types of browsers and operating systems, it would be most effective to start designing a page with my display settings matched to that of the most common user: no font smoothing.
Although Apple is supposed to be the standard for designers, OS X seems to have some problems turning off font smoothing. The best I could set it to with the standard System Preferences program was Light, but with TinkerTool (http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html) -- which uses OS X hidden features -- I could completely turn off font smoothing by selecting to turn off font smoothing for all sizes 144 pt and lower.
Things still aren't displaying properly though. Now letters overlap each other and look somewhat garbled, as if letter spacing was reduced by 1pt.
Has anyone found a solution to this problem?
Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve this problem?
If no one has, the alternative is to install boot camp, Windows, IE, and hope and pray a virus doesn't eat my Mac. I hope someone has a better solution.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance!
I'm part of a project to put together a rather large web page, and I'm having some designing problems because of OSX.
First, Tahoma, one of the web's most popular fonts, wasn't part of my original font package. So I installed a 30-day trial of Microsoft Office to get it.
Now, I want to turn off font smoothing on my mac so that it renders text the way that most users see it. Although testing is necessary with all types of browsers and operating systems, it would be most effective to start designing a page with my display settings matched to that of the most common user: no font smoothing.
Although Apple is supposed to be the standard for designers, OS X seems to have some problems turning off font smoothing. The best I could set it to with the standard System Preferences program was Light, but with TinkerTool (http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html) -- which uses OS X hidden features -- I could completely turn off font smoothing by selecting to turn off font smoothing for all sizes 144 pt and lower.
Things still aren't displaying properly though. Now letters overlap each other and look somewhat garbled, as if letter spacing was reduced by 1pt.
Has anyone found a solution to this problem?
Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve this problem?
If no one has, the alternative is to install boot camp, Windows, IE, and hope and pray a virus doesn't eat my Mac. I hope someone has a better solution.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance!