Hi all,

I just recently got a PowerBook and wanted to copy some of my TrueType
fonts that I have used in both Windows and Linux (like Tahoma and the
Bitstream Vera fonts). I've had no issues copying, installing, and using
the fonts except for *one* issue: the text displayed by those fonts (and
any other fonts I put on the PowerBook) is not great!

What happens is that when I view a web page or document, some letters
will either run into each other or overlap each other. When I type using
those fonts I get a similar effect, except it's bad to the point that I
can't see what I'm typing.

Switching to a font that was originally on this Mac works perfectly, so
I'm pretty sure it's a conversion issue. Has anybody else had this
problem, and if so, is there a fix? Thanks in advance!

-Eddy

> I just recently got a PowerBook and wanted to copy some of my TrueType
> fonts that I have used in both Windows and Linux (like Tahoma and the
> Bitstream Vera fonts). I've had no issues copying, installing, and using
> the fonts except for *one* issue: the text displayed by those fonts (and
> any other fonts I put on the PowerBook) is not great!
>
> What happens is that when I view a web page or document, some letters
> will either run into each other or overlap each other. When I type using
> those fonts I get a similar effect, except it's bad to the point that I
> can't see what I'm typing.

If you are using Firefox, yes, that's the case. Firefox does not use Quartz
and will do this.

> I just recently got a PowerBook and wanted to copy some of my TrueType
> fonts that I have used in both Windows and Linux (like Tahoma and the
> Bitstream Vera fonts). I've had no issues copying, installing, and using
> the fonts except for *one* issue: the text displayed by those fonts (and
> any other fonts I put on the PowerBook) is not great!
>
> What happens is that when I view a web page or document, some letters
> will either run into each other or overlap each other. When I type using
> those fonts I get a similar effect, except it's bad to the point that I
> can't see what I'm typing.

If you are using Firefox, yes, that's the case. Firefox does not use Quartz
and will do this.

Fenton wrote
(in article
<0001HW.BF4085B90001A2D8F04B8550@newsgroups.bellso uth.net>):

>> I just recently got a PowerBook and wanted to copy some of my TrueType
>> fonts that I have used in both Windows and Linux (like Tahoma and the
>> Bitstream Vera fonts). I've had no issues copying, installing, and using
>> the fonts except for *one* issue: the text displayed by those fonts (and
>> any other fonts I put on the PowerBook) is not great!
>>
>> What happens is that when I view a web page or document, some letters
>> will either run into each other or overlap each other. When I type using
>> those fonts I get a similar effect, except it's bad to the point that I
>> can't see what I'm typing.
>
> If you are using Firefox, yes, that's the case. Firefox does not use Quartz
> and will do this.

Yes, and Thunderbird does the same thing (for obvious reasons).
Fairly annoying that you have to have a Quartz-aware app to
render standard fonts properly. I would /really/ like to use
Vera Bitstream for some things, since it is one of my faves, in
mono form for things like terminal windows and source editing
and normal form for documents. It's far more readable, in my
opinion, than any of the standard fonts that ship with Mac OS X.
--
Randy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR)

Fenton wrote
(in article
<0001HW.BF4085B90001A2D8F04B8550@newsgroups.bellso uth.net>):

>> I just recently got a PowerBook and wanted to copy some of my TrueType
>> fonts that I have used in both Windows and Linux (like Tahoma and the
>> Bitstream Vera fonts). I've had no issues copying, installing, and using
>> the fonts except for *one* issue: the text displayed by those fonts (and
>> any other fonts I put on the PowerBook) is not great!
>>
>> What happens is that when I view a web page or document, some letters
>> will either run into each other or overlap each other. When I type using
>> those fonts I get a similar effect, except it's bad to the point that I
>> can't see what I'm typing.
>
> If you are using Firefox, yes, that's the case. Firefox does not use Quartz
> and will do this.

Yes, and Thunderbird does the same thing (for obvious reasons).
Fairly annoying that you have to have a Quartz-aware app to
render standard fonts properly. I would /really/ like to use
Vera Bitstream for some things, since it is one of my faves, in
mono form for things like terminal windows and source editing
and normal form for documents. It's far more readable, in my
opinion, than any of the standard fonts that ship with Mac OS X.
--
Randy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR)