Using MacPorts to Make OS X Fonts Render Like Linux

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sun May 30 21:29:44 PDT 2010


Maybe you should ask whoever you heard this from. If you can't specify a
particular technical difference, I doubt anybody can point you to the
right setting even if it exists.

On 2010-5-31 14:27 , Danny Michel wrote:
> any ideas?
> 
> On 5/29/10 6:27 PM, Joshua Root wrote:
>> Well, maybe you should start by explaining what exactly the difference
>> is.
>>
>> On 2010-5-30 08:19 , Danny Michel wrote:
>>   
>>> i didn't mean the fonts within gtk apps. i meant the universal font on
>>> os x. essentially, i would like to edit os x font rendering to look like
>>> linux.
>>>
>>> On 5/29/10 6:14 PM, Joshua Root wrote:
>>>     
>>>> On 2010-5-30 02:36 , Danny Michel wrote:
>>>>
>>>>       
>>>>> I heard it was possible to make OS X fonts render like Linux fonts via
>>>>> Macports. Is this really possible? If so, how would i do it?
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>> The fonts in GTK apps running under X11 look just like they do on Linux
>>>> to me.
>>>>
>>>> - Josh


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