Leopard Terminal doesn't like ProFont
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My clear favorite among monospaced fonts has so far been ProFont, 9pt with no antialiasing. I don’t think antialiasing works well for small type and I have yet to see as clear and crisp a font as ProFont. However… this is what a terminal window looks like after I updated to Leopard:
Not cool. Here’s exactly the same window after switching the font to Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:
Also not cool because of the ugliness but at least all the characters are shown. Anyone got an idea what’s happening with ProFont? Everything worked just pristine in Terminal in Tiger, and still does if I run iTerm.
[UPDATE, Dec 3 2007]
I played around with the different ProFont distributions a bit, and the only one that doesn’t break as above is the bitmap ATM version of the font. However, as you can see it’s just plain ugly with small text size (notice the pixelated k, : and ~).
I saw this behaviour myself recently with another application… it turned out to be a duplicate font. There was an ancient OS 9 version of my font sitting in ~/Library/Fonts which was getting in the way of the correct version.
Brent,
Thanks for the tip. I did indeed have duplicates of the font installed by Linotype FontExplorer X, and I had to manually track them down since FontBook was unable to resolve the conflicts by itself.
That said, resolving the duplicates didn’t help. Actually, I even tried the different versions of ProFont (ProFont Windows and ProFont ISOLatin1) and they were plagued by the same problem.
Will keep investigating.
Same problem for me, so it must not be a duplication font problem. I think the problem must be inside Profont itself. Some ligature attribute that now, Leopard, takes into account.
I think probably editing Profont one could solve the problem!