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Richard Kettlewell ([personal profile] ewx) wrote2008-07-20 09:30 pm
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Boot Camp font question

This image raises two issues:

  1. Why does the Mac disk get an anti-aliased font and the Windows one a pixelated one?
  2. Just how many fonts does a boot loader actually need?
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[identity profile] burkesworks.livejournal.com 2008-07-20 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Why does the Mac disk get an anti-aliased font and the Windows one a pixelated one?

Because Windows deserves no better?

[identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com 2008-07-20 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps because it's got an arrow beneath it?

(If you select the Windows drive, does the font change?)

[identity profile] gareth-rees.livejournal.com 2008-07-20 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
That's really quite witty: it appears to be using (or simulating?) the different typographical engines on each platform as a visual cue as to which is which.

[identity profile] mjg59.livejournal.com 2008-07-20 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
The other weird thing is that by "Windows" it actually means "Non-EFI operating system" - Linux shows up as Windows as well.
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