1. Since roughly April 2007 the Carbon version of Emacs is configured to use Core Graphics, which sucks for rendering fonts, blurs them to unreadability with anti-aliasing and renders them wrong without.

  2. I used this hack-patch on Emacs 22.2 to disable Core Graphics.

  3. --- /tmp/macgui.h   2008-01-10 13:16:15.000000000 +0100
    +++ src/macgui.h    2008-06-26 16:49:06.000000000 +0200
    @@ -79,6 +79,10 @@
     #include <Gestalt.h>
     #endif /* not HAVE_CARBON */
    
  4. +#define USE_ATSUI 0
    +#define USE_CG_TEXT_DRAWING 0
    +#define USE_CG_DRAWING 0
    +
     /* Whether to use ATSUI (Apple Type Services for Unicode Imaging) for
        text drawing.  */
     #ifndef USE_ATSUI