Font Display problems in Word X + Panther

[James Porter]

Am I alone in finding problems in the display of fonts in WOrd X in
Panther? All fonts seem smaller on the screen; Times is downright hard
to read.

Also, Palantino is gone? (And New York,since an earlier version of OS X?)

I've cleaned up the font caches with a program I found online and
referenced in OS X discussions. No change.

Jim
Ti-Book G4
Panther

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

Hi James:

Panther will use a 96 dpi screen if your graphics card supports it. This
makes fonts written for 72 dpi look 72/96ths of their height and width

Cheers

Am I alone in finding problems in the display of fonts in WOrd X in
Panther? All fonts seem smaller on the screen; Times is downright hard
to read.

Also, Palantino is gone? (And New York,since an earlier version of OS X?)

I've cleaned up the font caches with a program I found online and
referenced in OS X discussions. No change.

Jim
Ti-Book G4
Panther

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[James Porter]

Interesting. thanks. How do you tell which fonts are written for a
higher resolution? (I don't see this in Font Book's information window.)
Is Times (the APple font) written for 72 dpi?

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

Sorry James:

I don't know fonts in that detail. See if you can find Alan Wood. He will
know the answer. He sometimes drops in here.

The bottom line is: Almost everything affects how fonts render: the printer,
the OS version, he font version, the various levels of the software on a
machine.

Panther has much improved font smoothing and it's now turned on by default.
That can have this effect too. Check in System Preferences/Appearance to
see how yours is set.

Cheers

Interesting. thanks. How do you tell which fonts are written for a
higher resolution? (I don't see this in Font Book's information window.)
Is Times (the APple font) written for 72 dpi?

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John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer,
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. GMT + 10 Hrs
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

 

[Alan Wood]

John

Thank you for your confidence in me, but I am afraid I don't know the answer
to this one.

You probably need to find someone with experience of producing fonts.