Fonts Look Too Heavy In Safari

After installing Lion the way fonts display in Safari especially where they are bold are now too heavy which is closer to how they display on Safari in Windows. This is overdone as they looked better before.

Actually they are fine now as I hadn't seen that Use LCD font smoothing had been turned on. Now off and back as before.

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FF started handling fonts awry just out of the blue. I don't recall installing anything or fiddling with settings (be it Win7 or Firefox itself) the day before I started having this problem.
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Print screen: [http://imageftw.com/uploads/20110830/firefox.jpg google search]
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Since Chrome is working, then there's something going wrong with your IE and Firefox installs of Flash Player. Could you tell me what files you have in the C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash folder?
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Fonts look fater on Safari than in iWeb

When I create a page in iWeb the fonts look always fater once published on .Mac and wiewed with Safari. I always use regular web fonts (Helvetica, Verdana).
When surfing to the page using Internet Explorer on Windows, the fonts do not look too fat. It's just in safari.

i then suggest you make them as image by adding a small shadow to your text. this will make them be 1 to 1 on iWeb and online. see this image:
http://karreth.com/iweb/Text%20Displayed%20Incorrectly_files/boldness.jpg
click the little ---->>>>> T <<<<<------ to drop a shadow
here are some articles about text being displayed incorrectly:
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- http://web.mac.com/varkgirl/iWeb/iWebFAQ/FAQ%20Home/039F2491-7C80-4270-A867-AA9E 31F18045.html
- http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3285882&#3285882
the only bad thing - people cant copy your text and it will not be picked up by google!
max
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Is there any way to fix it so it looks good like it did in Snow Leopard?

Try clearing the browser cache and reset. Quit and relaunch the browser.
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Exporting PDF format for web viewing, fonts look bad

Hey everybody I'm relatively new to indesign so sorry if this is a simple one. I'm doing a newsletter in indesign, which will be used stricktly for web viewing. Whenever I export the file as a pdf the body text fonts look a bit off, as though they are slightly pixelated around the edges. This is not as noticable in the artcile titles with larger font, but any smaller font (i'm using size 14, and futura book) and it gets this pixelation, it is even more noticeable in the thinner type sets of the font. Another odd thing is the first page of the newsletter the fonts are more messed up looking than the following pages where the same font types and sizes are used, the only major difference is the first page has a photo on it, but the fonts that look weird are below the photo not overlaying it or anything like that. I turned off all the compression on the pdf export, also tried it will varying amounts of compression but still have the same issue. And I am viewing this in Mac's Preview program, not acrobat.

Ok, just checked through all the flattening preview highlights and everything looked fine in that. Since my exported document looked perfectly fine in acrobat, but sort of pixelated in mac's preview, is there any way around that?
If you are serving the PDF via a web address it will very likely be viewed in a browser (not downloaded and opened in an app like Preview or Reader). All of the browser displays have slightly different anti-aliasing, which you can see if you zoom in on a screen capture of the text. Here's a line of text from your PDF at 100%, magnified to 400% in Photoshop. From top to bottom Safari, Chrome, Firefox:
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Comments font is too small

Hello,
I've installed Acrobat DC and opened a PDF with comments.
When looking at the list of comments, it looks good and the font size is good,
BUT!
When double clicking the comment in comments bar in order to copy the comment, the font becomes too small.
The same PDF that it's comments font looked good under Acrobat X has become too small in Acrobat DC.
I know that there was never an option to make all comments fonts bigger and that you can go to each comment and enlarge it text, but it is not reasonable to do it for 200 comments.
This is very disturbing.
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Hello
Thank you for your answer but this is not what I asked and it doesn't solve my problem.
I'm not talking about comments I create.
I'm talking about comments proof readers are creating for me.
Most of them use Reader and most of them use the default settings for the comment text.
I am the graphic designer who needs to fix the proof reader comments. I need to copy the text of the comment, and for that I need to double click it. When double clicking to comment, the text becomes too small. It has nothing to do with the size you set in preferences as this size refer the the comments text view when they are closed (without double clicking it in order to copy the fixed word or words) and not about the content of the comment. It even written in prefs "Comment view" and not "Comment content"///
Look at the attached screenshot.
I hope my question is clearer now.
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I don't believe there is a way to do it. There was never a way.
I read here that there is nothing to do in old versions, seems like in the new version its the same. So the news are still sad as one of your stuff said in his answer...
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all the best,
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[SOLVED] Gnome & Firefox: Fonts are too small

Hi,
I am really used to using firefox in Windows XP where fonts are readable out-of-the-box. By this I mean I didn't have to fiddle with firefox when I installed it, the fonts looked great.
Now that I'm using Gnome, I see that firefox's fonts are really too small. The glyphs are smashed together too. How can I get the fonts to look decent in firefox? I'm not sure if this is an OS-level setting or a firefox-level setting.
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If you have an LCD monitor, try this:
Copy & paste the code below into a file called
.fonts.conf
[NOTE: It's a hidden file ! ]
and save it in your home directory. Log out & in again and fire up The Fox !
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">

<fontconfig>

<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
<const>none</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="hinting">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
<const>hintfull</const>
</edit>
</match>

<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>

<match target="pattern" >
<edit mode="assign" name="autohint">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>

<match target="pattern" name="family" >
<test name="family" qual="any" >
<string>Helvetica</string>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="family" >
<string>sans-serif</string>
</edit>
</match>
<dir>~/.fonts</dir>
</fontconfig>
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Deej

Fonts look bad in OSX jagged text

Hello
I thought apple gave us font smoothing in OSX! My fonts look terrible in QuarkXpress6.0. Is this what I have to look forward to? I miss my ATM.
I did the "font smoothing thing" in appearence-no change.
Also will all my older fonts from when I used OS 7 +8, will these still work in OSX? and by Quark XPress?
Please enlighten me!
all fonts look bad; Goudy old style, bellvue etc. (postscript type 1)
imac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.4) 21" screen

if I zoom out in Quark to view document at say 125% the 45 pt type really looks bad
Hmm. I'm unable to duplicate your problem. I've pasted some random text into Quark, sized it to 45 pt and set the zoom to 125%. No matter if I go up or down, the fonts look very smooth with both Goudy Old Style and News Gothic (I have the Adobe version, not MT, which is from MonoType). Well, if I look real close, I can see a little bit of jaggies around curves. But nothing very noticable.
Is your 21" monitor a CRT or LCD? LCD always produce the best image when used at their native resolution. A CRT's best display varies depending on whether it has a shadow mask or aperture grill tube. If your monitor has an independent control for sharpening, it may be too high.
I have some fonts installed that I don't know where they came from ex: News Gothic MT (Microsoft I think) Will these view and print okay in any program?
As long as it's a standard Mac suitcase style TrueType font, or a complete and proper Type 1 PostScript font, it should just as well as any other.
I keep all my fonts in classic folder and manage w/font book (thats another story) It seems that my classic apps, Illustrator, see most of the fonts all the time eventhough I turned many off in fontbook. Also illustrator doesn't see ALL the fonts.
That's a handful. When it comes to Classic, the rules are a little different. Fonts you manually place into the OS 9 Fonts folder, or are put there by the OS when activating them from Font Book with OS 9 as the choice to be activated for, fonts are then available to both Classic and OS X.
If you deactivate them in Font Book, the fonts will become unavailable to OS X apps. However, any Classic apps will continue to see them until you shut down all OS 9 applications and Classic. In other words, once you open fonts for Classic, they can't be closed to Classic without shutting the entire environment down. Confused yet?
As far as Illustrator not seeing all the fonts, that relates to this part of your question:
Please explain the limitations of classic apps and fonts.
Classic can use any fonts that were in existence for the Mac before OS X. All of your older Mac TrueType and Type 1 PostScript fonts will work in OS X and Classic. Fonts that will work as is in OS X that you couldn't use before on a Mac are PC TrueType fonts. If you have copied any of the OS X .dfonts into the OS 9 Fonts folder, those will not work. A .dfont is a variation of a TrueType font, with the data in the data fork rather than the resource fork as they are with the older Mac TrueType fonts. Neither OS 9 or any Classic apps can read these fonts. Those are likely the ones not showing up in Illustrator.
It sounds like you do a lot of work with fonts. While Apple has improved Font Book quite a bit in Tiger, it's still very much a consumer font manager for those who handle fonts only occasionally. You'd be much better off using a font manager such as Suitcase X1 or Font Agent Pro.

Bitmap fonts look ugly in terminal?

http://i.imgur.com/60oKumZ.png
The lemon font looks absolutely horrible, any idea's on how to fix it?
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2ManyDogs wrote:
Try adjusting the letter spacing in your ~/.Xresources.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Urxvt#Font_spacing
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Mine:
What it's supposed to look like:
I had it working fine before, but now all of a sudden it just shit the bed
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In v.4 fonts look blurry. Can you solve this shortcoming ?

Fonts look blurry in the overall menu in this new version of browser (v.4). I tried all the options that you specified with the ClearType an so on... It seems that the problem is not from Windows 7 because the old version looks ok. Can you solve this shortcoming ?
Until you resolve it I'll stay with the previous version (3.6.16) which it looks really good.

Yea, when I actually install my applications and launch them from GNOME Shell's menu or launcher the fonts look as blurry as they do when I launch them from Anjuta. Other applications look fine and with the workarounds I described above, my own applications display nicely too when launched from either GNOME Shell or Anjuta.

Question - Y do my fonts look slightly different when publish site to .mac?

I've created a website on iWeb but when i publish it and view it in safari the fonts look slightly different. It's hard to explain but they basically just look worse. Can anyone let me know why this might be and how i could fix this problem. Thanks in advance.

Quit iWeb, go to Home Folder/Library/Preferences and delete the file com.apple.iWeb.plist.
Restart your Mac, launch iWeb and republish.
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Font appears too large

Hi, I'm running Photoshop CS3 Mac.
Text size that would be 9 or 10 point in other apps is only 3 or 4pt in PS. My image size is 600px x 600px, 300 dpi. I think that the font is losing clarity because I have it set to such a low number. Why is this happening? Thanks in advance.

Not sure I understand you, but maybe this will help:
Your 600x600 image at 300 ppi works out to 2x2 inches at actual size. Your 12 point text should look like 12 point text when printed at actual size. However when viewing that 300 ppi image in Photoshop at 100% (i.e. one image pixel = one monitor pixel) it may look too large to you, since your monitor's resolution is probably in the range of 72-100 ppi. (Note that your "2x2 inch" image appears much larger than 2 inches wide in this case.) Therefore a 300 ppi image viewed at 100% in Photoshop will be 300-400% larger than "actual" size, so 12 point type may look too large on screen...in the same way, 3 or 4 point text will look like 12 point text at that magnification.
You can choose View > Print Size for a rough preview of "actual" size, but that depends on the Screen Resolution setting in Preferences > Units & Rulers. 72 ppi is the default, but your monitor may be higher or lower than that.

Fonts look blurry inside GTK since using Gettext and Autotools

Hey all,
I am noticing an issue in three of my projects, but I have no idea where to start debugging. Let me explain below.
So, I have three projects with GTK3 (and C). At first, I used a simple Makefile and nothing else to compile these applications and all was fine. Some time ago, I imported these into Anjuta (GNOME IDE) which set me up with Autools and also automatically enabled Gettext so I can translate my applications. When I build my applications with Autools, the fonts suddenly look blurry/anti-aliased.
In one project, I managed to resolve these blurry fonts by removing a call to gtk_window_set_default_icon_name(). In another, I can fix it by removing a Pango markup which does nothing but scale a font to size 48 (removing the call to gtk_window_set_default_icon_name() did not work here). In the third project, I have no idea on how to resolve this, as removing the gtk_window_set_default_icon_name() did not solve it this time either and I do not use Pango markup. As you can see, none of these workarounds have anything in common so I have no idea where to start debugging this.
I can think of three causes for this:
1. Autotools;
2. Gettext;
3. Anjuta.
But searching on Google does not give me any viable results.
You can find the code for all three projects on my GitHub, if needed:
1. https://github.com/Unia/gcolor3 - Here I removed the call to gtk_window_set_default_icon_name().
2. https://github.com/Unia/gtimeutils - This one I can solve by removing the Pango markup in GTimer. GStopwatch is fine.
3. https://github.com/Unia/gxms - No clue to resolve.
Perhaps I better ask this on another forum, but I thought I'd try here first. Thanks in advance!
Last edited by Unia (2013-06-22 14:33:36)

Yea, when I actually install my applications and launch them from GNOME Shell's menu or launcher the fonts look as blurry as they do when I launch them from Anjuta. Other applications look fine and with the workarounds I described above, my own applications display nicely too when launched from either GNOME Shell or Anjuta.

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