Mac Font on Dapper Drake

About Mac Fonts

Mac Fonts
AppleGaramond
Aquabase
LITHOGRL
Lucida Grande
Lucida Mac
lucon
MacGrand

Requirement

You need Mac Fonts. You can download them from osx-e. After downloaded, you need to install them on Dapper Drake:

unzip Fonts.zip
sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/macfonts
sudo cp Fonts/* /usr/share/fonts/macfonts
sudo fc-cache -f -v

Choose the Fonts

You can choose the fonts from:
System -> Preferences -> Font
From Font Preferences, I choose these following fonts:

Application font: Lucida Grande 9
Document font: Lucida Grande 9
Desktop font: MACGrande 9
Window title font: LucidaMacBold
Fixed width font: Lucida Console

Feel free to make your own choice

Configuration

You need addition configuration to make your Mac Fonts look nice for you. Type command:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig

At the first fontconfig configuration screen, you can choose:

Native if you want your fonts look like picture 1.
Autohinter if you want your fonts look like picture 2.
None if you want your fonts look like picture 3.

For the next screen, let them by default.

You may need restart your session to make changes effect by logout and login again. Please leave a comment here. Any comment will be appreciate. Thank You very much. Good luck…

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April 27th, 2006 26 Comments Linux, Tutorial, Ubuntu

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1 eko on Apr 28th, 2006 said:

mas supri saya lagi bljr linux bisa ngga sih gnome
ku didandanin kaya mac ada ngga sih docker kayak
kxdocker tapi buat gnome

makasih mas
2 sUpricak3p on May 1st, 2006 said:

Bisa-bisa aja gnome mirip ama mac. Tapi mungkin tetep kalah ama yang aslinya Kalo docker yang khusus buat gnome sich kayanya blom ada. Setahu saya loch. Kali aja perlu search lagi. Selama ini aku pakai KXDocker (aslinya untuk KDE tapi sudah bisa buat GNOME juga). Terus aku ganti pake Engage. Tentu ada kurang dan lebihnya di masing2 aplikasi. Aku juga masih belajar kok. Bagi-bagi ilmu donk… Thx…
3 NetTribe on Jun 10th, 2006 said:

Thank you, I found this guide very helpful
4 brian on Sep 13th, 2006 said:

hey thanks for that!
5 Geoff Taylor on Oct 2nd, 2006 said:

I had to view this page through Google’s cache to see the whole page. It appears broken whether I view through Safari or Firefox in OS X… and Firefox in Ubuntu.
6 Geoff Taylor on Oct 2nd, 2006 said:

I had to view this page through Google’s cache (http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:WkhLbQ796EEJ:www.supriyadisw.net/2006/04/mac-font-on-dapper-drake+mac+fonts+dapper+drake&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=safari) to see the whole page. It appears broken whether I view through Safari or Firefox in OS X and Firefox in Ubuntu.
7 Carlos Cardoso on Oct 4th, 2006 said:

Hi. Congratulations for the excelent well writen text.

I’ve followed all instructions above but occurs a instigant problem. Those fonts appears be installed and can read in certain programs but in the Font Preferences. It can see all the Macfonts (like Lucida Grande etc), but type all of them in the same wrong way: instead normal letters it shows very small letters and numbers all of then as an unique font. If I choose one of them, everything get crazy and irreadable.

Could anyone say to me what’ s wrong?
8 Robert on Oct 10th, 2006 said:

I followed the mac font suggestion of this website, and I have to say: this is the only thing that makes Edgy on my Latitude D600 laptop look nice. Bitstream or Microsoft fonts just don’t seem to do the trick as well… Why isn’t this a more popular option?
I agree that fonts and look-and-feel issues are probably the major thing that holds back Ubuntu at this time. People spend hours in front of their monitors and having it look good is more important than anything. This is probably also the *only* reason why Windows Vista will be succesful: it hurts less on the eyes…
9 forum on Jan 5th, 2007 said:

I found more fonts you can use from mac, but great that you explained how I can install them.
10 DaveG on Jan 9th, 2007 said:

Thanks for such a useful info.
11 Eko Prasetyo on Jan 9th, 2007 said:

Makasih infonya Mas Pri.
@eko
GNOME punya gdesklets bukan?
sudo apt-get install gdesklets
Sayang appletnya masih dikit
12 igooi signwith on Jan 15th, 2007 said:

The Complete Guide To technology
13 gnolia clickthe on Feb 2nd, 2007 said:

Just want to say thanks!
14 Pavarr on Feb 7th, 2007 said:

This rocks. Thanks, man!
15 shiv kumar on Feb 20th, 2007 said:

good idea it worked for me. makes the screen look good
16 Meryovi on Jun 13th, 2007 said:

Thank you so much!
Now my Ubuntu is much more sexier.
17 Ivan Vasiljevic on Dec 15th, 2007 said:

Hi,

Thank you for your 2 great tutorials about transforming Dapper into OS X. I used it on Kiwi which is a distro based on Gutsy and it works great on the Kiwi. Some points differed by name but it was easy to understand and follow your steps.

In addition, I deleted original panel and made new one on the bottom which is now just an Application Launcher. On both top and bottom panel I choosed solid color with huge transparency so they don’t contrast to much with blue desktop. I removed some icons from the top bar as well to look cleaner.

Did you write tutorial on these panel things? How to make launch panel?

The only thing that bothers me, is left upper corner. An Apple sign over there would be great. Do you happen to know how it can be done?

Regards,
Ivan

P.S.
Here is mine printscrren of desktop
18 amadamala on Mar 13th, 2008 said:

Hi,
Well written document, Thanks.