hi david, > 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. terminal seems using the antialiased version in both pictures. 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. 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. As Robert Hicks said, Consolas is a font mainly for anti-aliased use. best regards, frank -- frank hellenkamp | interface designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | mail +49.30.49 78 20 70 | tel +49.173.70 55 781 | mbl +49.1805.4002.243 912 | fax
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