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Two things that really bug me: 1. No cleartype. I.e. although there is subpixel antialiasing, fonts aren't optimized for the pixel grid. Thus, the fonts are mu
by srgseg 16y ago
Two things that really bug me:
1. No cleartype. I.e. although there is subpixel antialiasing, fonts aren't optimized for the pixel grid. Thus, the fonts are much clearer when I boot to Windows and so I feel like everything is fuzzy when I boot back to Mac OS. This isn't a problem for the web, but for coding and SSH it's terrible. I can't use Windows full time though because Spaces is so outstanding and I don't get trackpad options under Windows.
2. Excel on Mac lacks my most used feature: web data import. Windows Excel lets me choose a table inside a web browser, and the data in that table (stock quotes/currency rates/etc) are imported into Excel (and re-retrieved just by pushing F9).
Excel on Mac does allow you to manually create text files that describe web data import which would be a possible workaround except that the sites I use require a login, and Windows Excel can save cookie state because of its tight integration with IE, but Mac Excel can't.
- frou_dh 16y agoMy font-rendering beefs seem quite transient, I've been a detractor and appreciator of plain aliased, ClearType and Mac style at various times. The only consistency has been Linux distro defaults looking gash ;)
- nagnatron 16y agoYou can easily set it to be pretty nice(hinting to slight or none, subpixel rendering). One very nice thing about linux is that it works very, very well for high-dpi screens.
- chc 16y agoThe first point is a longstanding difference of opinion between different users. The thing is, fonts on Windows in general are sharper but mangle the letterforms, while fonts on the Mac look just how they were designed but have to sacrifice sharpness to do so with current display resolutions. So, basically, the question is: Is readability more a function of the font's design or contrast of the luminance?
- Groxx 16y agoNot sure if they're "sharper". They're definitely thinner. OSX essentially increases boldness when they AA, while Windows decreases. I, personally, vastly prefer OSX's rendering. But it's entirely a preference thing for nearly everyone (unless they're doing typographical work).
- coffeedrinker 16y agoI always run Tinkertools and set the font antialiasing to 18pt or so. Makes the fonts clean like back on an apple II.
- masklinn 16y ago> I.e. although there is subpixel antialiasing, fonts aren't optimized for the pixel grid. Thus, the fonts are much clearer when I boot to Windows and so I feel like everything is fuzzy when I boot back to Mac OS. It has nothing to do with fonts being "optimized for the pixel grid", it has to do with decisions taken on the antialiasing optimizations: OSX's is setup for rendering correctness (displayed fonts are to be as close to the original typeface as possible), whereas Windows's aims at clarity at the expense of rendering correctness. I can only say that I have no issue with it (quite the opposite, you can disable AA for fonts up to 12px built in and some more with third-party applications and I find it dreadful)
- slashclee 16y agoFor coding and SSH, you should try using Menlo at 9pt or 10pt with AA turned off.
- blinkingled 16y agoMy biggest gripe is OS X not having working high DPI support. This really makes it impossible to use high res displays with OS X. I had to switch my 17" to Win 7 as I was killing my eyes in OSX badly. I have learnt to live with the lack of trackpad features on Windows but that's nothing Apple can't fix in a driver update - hopefully soon.
- sil3ntmac 16y agoYou may want to download TinkerTool (http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html) and set font smoothing to "light". Here's a before and after screenshot I just made: http://imgur.com/gOffi http://imgur.com/gOffi