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…

Link

Mac Fonts

18 comments

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
Comment by eko on April 28, 2006 at 6:10 am
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…
Comment by sUpricak3p on May 1, 2006 at 1:07 pm
Thank you, I found this guide very helpful
Comment by NetTribe on June 10, 2006 at 1:08 am
hey thanks for that!
Comment by brian on September 13, 2006 at 1:49 am
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.
Comment by Geoff Taylor on October 2, 2006 at 9:21 pm
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.
Comment by Geoff Taylor on October 2, 2006 at 9:22 pm
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?
Comment by Carlos Cardoso on October 4, 2006 at 4:35 am
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…
Comment by Robert on October 10, 2006 at 9:42 pm
I found more fonts you can use from mac, but great that you explained how I can install them.
Comment by forum on January 5, 2007 at 5:57 am
Thanks for such a useful info.
Comment by DaveG on January 9, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Makasih infonya Mas Pri.
@eko
GNOME punya gdesklets bukan?
sudo apt-get install gdesklets
Sayang appletnya masih dikit
Comment by Eko Prasetyo on January 9, 2007 at 10:55 pm
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Comment by igooi signwith on January 15, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Just want to say thanks!
Comment by gnolia clickthe on February 2, 2007 at 1:32 pm
This rocks. Thanks, man!
Comment by Pavarr on February 7, 2007 at 4:03 pm
good idea it worked for me. makes the screen look good
Comment by shiv kumar on February 20, 2007 at 1:10 am
Thank you so much!
Now my Ubuntu is much more sexier.
Comment by Meryovi on June 13, 2007 at 7:27 am
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
Comment by Ivan Vasiljevic on December 15, 2007 at 6:22 pm
Hi,
Well written document, Thanks.
Comment by amadamala on March 13, 2008 at 8:56 am

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