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[Update 8/24/2007 - Some people are still going around accusing me of stacking the deck and fabricating evidence against Apple by disabling sub-pixel rendering on Mac OS X. It turns out that there ...
An trio of tips and queries regarding fonts in Mac OS X: Displaying "graphic" fonts in Cocoa applications For several weeks now, we have been a bit mystified by the fact that we could not select ...
Multiple Font Locations. In Mac OS 9, if you didn’t use a third-party font manager and wanted your fonts to be active, you had to store them in the Fonts folder inside the System Folder.
Editor’s Note: The following article is an excerpt from Take Control of Fonts in Mac OS X, a $20 electronic book available for download from TidBits Electronic Publishing.The 255-page ebook ...
The Mac OS X approach to fonts is something that can leave users baffled, and no wonder: many different types are supported, they can be stored in a multitude of places, and Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger ...
Mac OS X 10.5.5 exhibits problems with the display of some fonts when rendering PDF files, in which various characters seem to be distorted, causing difficulty reading documents.
The Font Reserve Extension no longer exists; the feature added by this extension in version 2, where opening a document would automatically activate any fonts it referred to, doesn’t work in Mac OS X.