Comments on: ProFont in Jaguar’s Terminal

By: Michael Tsai - Blog - ProFontX

Michael Tsai - Blog - ProFontX — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 18:36:45 +0000

[...] Faisal Jawdat has created ProFontX, a version of ProFont that works better in Cocoa applications because it doesn’t have any ligatures. Allan Odgaard says it’s better than ProFontISOLatin1. [...]

By: Boozil

Boozil — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:05:27 +0000

>I use Lucida Sans Typewriter ... it isn't free,

Actually, you will find it on your Mac at:
/Library/Java/Home/lib/fonts

Normally available only to Java apps, perhaps you could copy into your ~/Library/Fonts folder.

By: Michael McCracken

Michael McCracken — Tue, 17 May 2005 22:48:01 +0000

This 'l/' problem still exists in 10.4 - in any NSTextView, not just terminal. I'm sad that I will have to switch from ProFont.

By: p

Sun, 30 Mar 2003 23:59:07 +0000

this might be sorted out all ready but unless:

Actually I think I've accidentally fixed your ProFont problems. Importing ProFont into FontLab and exporting it as a dfont (resource free mac TrueType) seems to create a problemfree ProFont. It's possibly not the dfont format that fixes things but rather FontLab itself.

I found this while experimenting with a bold weight of ProFont (didn't turn out verry well by the way, maybe some day with more time I'll do it for real).

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

There's one other thing about ProFont - with the Terminal defaults, the bottom portions of low hanging characters, like 'g' and 'j,' get cut off.

The solution to this is adjusting the line height. I find that a setting of about 1.05 works well with 9 point ProFont.

Looking at the Font dialog, the slider is pretty obvious. However, a discussion very similar to this has been taking place on the Mac OS X talk mailing list. There were many grateful readers once somebody pointed out this setting.

By: Charles Albrecht

Charles Albrecht — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

A problem still exists with ProFontISOLatin1 - while the l/ L/ problem is most noticeable, terminal still has problems with o/ and O/ displaying as ø and Ø.

I'll have to see whether anyone's come up with anything since Jaguar's release over on the Mac OS X talk list.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Although I see the spacing problem with Monaco 9, I have chosen to use Monaco 10--it has absolutely no problems at all. Dare I say it's gorgeous.

Chris

By: Mitchell L Model

Mitchell L Model — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I use Lucida Sans Typewriter for Terminal, Emacs, etc. Of course it isn't free, but it's highly readable and plays well with most applications.

By: darien

darien — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Apple's MPW font (bundled with CodeWarrior for a time) is available for download. Looks just like ProFont 9 -should- in Terminal, but none of the bugs.

ftp://ftp.apple.com/developer/Tool_Chest/Core_Mac_OS_Tools/MPW_etc./Miscellaneous/MPW_Font.sit.hqx