But Apple puts in a lot of effort to specifically cater to that 1% of users that do. This is part of where Apple's reputation for being "better" for graphics artists comes from.ĩ9% of computer users don't think or care about stuff like font rendering, kerning, and color matching. Either way, Apple is very proud of their font rendering, even going so far as to override ClearType in their Windows-based apps (Safari, iTunes, and QuickTime). You can Google "OS X font rendering" to see that some people hate the way Apple renders fonts (usually from programmers and web designers), and others (like graphic artists and print shops) that love it. Apple also gets to cheat a little, because 90+% of Macs are attached to an Apple screen and they can cherry-pick what looks best on their own hardware, whereas Windows has to contend with some crappy low-res, no-name screens out there. > This is particularly annoying when a dialogue takes place over several > emails and with each reply the copy at the bottom of the message gets > smaller and smaller.
The difference between bold and non-bold text is more subtle on a Mac whereas on Windows it's much more obvious - especially at smaller point sizes. Paul wrote: > Does anybody know how to set up on a Mac so the font size does not reduce > when sending from Mac to PC. You can see this with bold and italicized text. Apple optimizes their rendering for WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) when printing. Change font size: Click View in the top menu bar, click Zoom Text Only, then click Zoom In. Select the text which you want to format (refer to Figure 1, above). Change the page size: Click the Settings icon, then click the + in the Zoom setting to make the page larger. In Windows, ClearType is optimized for on-screen readability. Let us now explore how you can choose different font types and change the font size of the selected text on the slide in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac: Create a new presentation and type some text in the placeholder, as shown in Figure 1. You'll also notice that color representation is a bit better in OS X too. On a Mac, it's part of the Quartz engine. The software that performs the magic is called the font renderer.