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Sep 23, 2012 3:06 PM in response to Phil2003by sal_manilla,Hi,
I'm facing the same problem. The fonts on an external monitor are very blurry. Graphics and icons are displayed crystal sharp. I can rule out any issue with the monitor or cable (mini DisplayPort to DVI) whatsoever, because if I run Ubuntu in VirtualBox, then within the VM the fonts are displayed sharp. Also no font issues on the notebook display itself.
So it all comes down to a font issue on external displays, as can be read in several forums. The font smoothing tweaks didn't show an effect.
Macbook Air 13" mid-2012
OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion (10.8 pre-installed)
External Display: Benq G2222HDL connected via miniDisplayPort to DVI Adapter on the Thunderbolt connection
Can anyone reproduce the correct font display in a virtual machine?
Thanks,
sal_manilla
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Oct 3, 2012 12:22 PM in response to Phil2003by bigawplano,I too am having this same issue with my new Macbook Air 13". My external monitor via HDMI can't handle the fonts but it can handle media/graphics.
I hope someone has insight into this.
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Oct 8, 2012 1:03 AM in response to Phil2003by bibu100,i am having the exact problem. i tried a few differnet cables as well. bought the original thunderbolt to hdmi from apple store and still the same issue. the fonts are pretty blurred and i have do have a professional grade monitor. the Asus Proart. Incidentally the windows laptop which i used previously gave crisper fonts. anyone who has same problem please help. This is on a macbok air 13" bought 2 weeks back.
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Oct 8, 2012 1:31 AM in response to Phil2003by Michael Guntsche,Hello,
This could be an issue with font anti-aliasing and external third party displays. To get good results with my external monitor I had to set the correct AA setting. Pre Snow Leopard you could do this via preferences but Apple "simplified" it. They try to detect it automatically but this apparently only works with Apple displays.
Open a terminal and C&P
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 2Then logout of your account and back in. The fonts should look less fuzzy now.
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Oct 21, 2012 11:59 PM in response to Michael Guntscheby BigTrouble,System: MacBook Air
Display: Asus PA248q
Connection: Mini DisplayPort HDMI female adapter to HDMI
Thanks for the tip, Michael. It's helped make the fonts on my new display look better. However, it's still slightly off (no matter what level of font smoothing) when you do a side by side comparison with my MacBook Air screen.
Is there anyway to make it more seamless?
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Oct 25, 2012 2:54 PM in response to BigTroubleby Michael Guntsche,Hi,
Well looking at my two displays they are also not completely the same but I think this is more or less because they are two different displays.
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Oct 25, 2012 3:05 PM in response to Michael Guntscheby BigTrouble,So I (finally) got my monitor to look great. It seams like HDMI was the culprit. I bout a Mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable and fonts and colors look great.
J
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Oct 29, 2012 12:21 PM in response to Phil2003by katndmouse,Same problem here and there are 27 pages someplace here of other people reporting the issue. Please report a bug fix. What people have discovered is that it's probably an OS issue because someone said when they booted in Windows, it was fine. I bought 2 new monitors, 2 different brands, same problem. I tried HDMI and DVI cables. Same problem. @BigTrouble, by DispalyPort cable, do you mean DVI??
My fonts look as if they were written in fuzzy chalk. It's really bad.
Is this Apple's way of forcing us to buy their monitors? If they were affordable I would.
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Oct 29, 2012 12:29 PM in response to katndmouseby BigTrouble,@katndmouse - By DisplayPort I mean DisplayPort. DVI is a totally separate thing.
My Asus PA248Q supports both DVI and DisplayPort inputs. Here's the cable that I bought. It supports both audio and video. So I'm able to connect my speakers to my monitor and get audio from one cable.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003TSTDI0/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00
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Nov 7, 2012 12:41 PM in response to sal_manillaby sal_manilla,I've tried it now on a Dell U2412M with DisplayPort cable and with DVI+Adapter and still the same blurry text - unbearable for reading more than a couple of minutes.
Absolutely annoying that there is still no fix and workaround whatsoever for a show stopper like this!
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Jan 3, 2013 4:21 AM in response to Phil2003by Piers Beckley,I had this problem on a Dell Ultrasharp U2312HM 23 inch IPS LED with DVI <-> DVI.
Showstopper, monitor returned. I want to recommend a Mac Mini to people, but can't unless I know they're going to be able to use it without blurry fonts!
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Jan 6, 2013 4:39 PM in response to Phil2003by The King of Limbs,I have the same problem with a 2012 retina MBP. I wasted 2 weeks trying to fix Apple's Mountain Lion OSX. The display on external monitors is pathetic, and Mountain Lion won't let the user change the settings to something that might work. Apple Support even suggested I spring for SwitchResX ($20) to "patch" the problem until Apple fixes it. What?!
I returned the nice new retina MBP for a refund. No way am I going to shell out over $3K for a computer that can't even play nice with external monitors. And don't even get me started on the whole "wake from sleep" issue!
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Jan 30, 2013 7:46 AM in response to Phil2003by Johnny-BG,Possible resolution for some users:
I running Lion on my MBP and have run into the same issue described here with an external Samsung monitor.
Adapter is a thunderbolt-HDMI (I did not have an issue with the thunderbolt-DVI)
To resolve the blurry font issue I had to change the video mode from 1080p to the max available resolution setting which for me was 1680 x 1050 (60Hz)
I know this isn't ideal but it fixes the blurry text issue nicely.
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Mar 9, 2013 3:27 AM in response to Phil2003by aron77,★HelpfulI found this link: http://ireckon.net/2013/03/force-rgb-mode-in-mac-os-x-to-fix-the-picture-quality -of-an-external-monitor which fixed the issue for me. Hope it helps.