Hi Frank
> I've been using the new 'Consolas' font from the Vista font pack for
> my vim editing on my Mac for a month or so without problems. This
> font looks amazing, but _only_ when anti-aliased, otherwise it looks
> like a mess.
>
> The other day, I setup a second mac here, and was trying to get it to
> render Consolas the same as on my first machine. It simply refuses to
> render properly. See http://dagsolutions.ca/vim_brokenfonts1.png and
> http://dagsolutions.ca/vim_brokenfonts2.png for the working and
> non-working screenshots respectively. I've got a terminal running top
> in the background, using Consolas as well, to show that the font works
> equally well on both machines in Terminal.app.
have you tested this in other software than vim (terminal etc.) in tha
not anti-aliased version? should be the same result.
Yes, it looks just as ugly when anti-aliasing is disabled in other apps :)
terminal seems using the antialiased version in both pictures.
Right, that was to demonstrate that Terminal is able to render it just
fine antialiased on both machines, while vim seems unable to do the
same.
it could be, that this font (i haven't used it myself), is not well
hinted or not yet hinted, or not hinted for this specific font size,
which is very small indeed.
It's hinted only for a few sizes, including this (yes, very) small
size - 9pt. I like to keep my screen real estate, and pretend I have
a 30" monitor! :)
truetype and opentype fonts can be optimized for output in small sizes.
verdana, tahoma etc. are very well hinted, but there are many fonts that
aren't, which gives bad results in small sizes, when no anti-aliasing
is used.
Well, it looks fine on my macbook pro, where anti-aliasing works. The
real question becomes, why won't antialiasing work on my other mac?
Dave
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