Comments on: Aliased Text in Eclipse on OS X

By: YAY!MEDIA - Flash Platform Development Blog

YAY!MEDIA - Flash Platform Development Blog — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:08:45 +0000

Changing Flex Builder’s default code-view font on OSX…

Whenever I use Flex Builder I don’t like the standard Courier or monospace font used in Windows or OSX. Instead I prefer to use the excellent Proggy Programming Fonts – they are excellent, concise fonts designed to be readable while remaini…

By: Eric the Grateful

Eric the Grateful — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:04:56 +0000

The solution above, that is typing this into a terminal window, worked great for me:

defaults write org.eclipse.eclipse AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 20

Many grateful thanks, to Tim.

By: Okonomiyaki3000

Okonomiyaki3000 — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:59:56 +0000

I don’t know why people are so down on smooth text for monospaced fonts. Looks great on Anonymous even down to 7pt.

By: Vanderhoven Nick

Vanderhoven Nick — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:49:00 +0000

If you have the problem that heywood has you can just change the settings of the syntax highlighing, if you use profont, i prefer to set

defaults write org.eclipse.eclipse AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 10

and have only the text in the editor not aliased at 10pt while the text in eg the package view is still aa at 11 pt

By: Jannis Hermanns' place

Jannis Hermanns' place — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:47:05 +0000

OSX: Disable font anti-aliasing in Eclipse…

For those who use Eclipse in Leopard or Tiger, here’s a little tip on how to turn off font antialiasing. There is a system wide setting in the control panel, but it affects all applications. Usually I like smooth fonts – but not for programming. To se…

By: Netbeans Font Smoothing in OSX

Netbeans Font Smoothing in OSX — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:04:05 +0000

[...] tried setting the global font smoothing threshold in OSX preferences to no avail. People have had exactly the same issue in Eclipse but none of the suggestions are working (read the [...]

By: el_migu_el

el_migu_el — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:04:58 +0000

Hi, nice tip, thank you. Unfortunately I can not generate a nice HUGE variant of my loved Terminus font. Anybody a little help for me? :)

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:20:04 +0000

Have you noticed the difference (on Leopard) between Monaco rendered in XCode and Eclipse. The Xcode rendering of Monoco is just beautiful. I cannot stand the version Eclipse produces (same font, same size). Does anyone know how produce the Xcode result in Eclipse? Thx

By: michal

michal — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:04:33 +0000

Please help, otherwise I’m gonna get crazy.

None of these solutions worked for me.
I tried: scaling the font I use ( Lucida Sans Typewriter ), adding both entries to defaults.
Nothing.
Terminal window displays the same font perfectly, exacly the way I expect.
Any ideas?

By: eitan

eitan — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:57:03 +0000

thanks for the post, I’ve tried your huge font looks good but as heywood said I think you forgot to scale bold and italics. Can you pls post the font you’re using pleaseee.
Thanks.

By: bryan kennedy

bryan kennedy — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:44:43 +0000

Thanks SO much for this post. Tim's comment above about the per application Anti Aliasing worked perfectly for me. I wrote a little article about my search for my favorite programing font. I eventually landed on ProFont like bob. It's real nice to not have to switch away from it as I start transitioning from BBEdit to Eclipse. Before I got this anti-aliasing figured out it didn't look right at all in Eclipse.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:25:22 +0000

Heywood, just set the defaults for eclipse as follows:

defaults write org.eclipse.eclipse AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 20

I also had the same problem with the bold font type provided in the example above. This method works a treat.

By: heywood

heywood — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:51:25 +0000

Hey, i tried your font which looks good in eclipse but bold font seems like you didn’T scale it. That means standard font is perfect but bold is so small that it is not readable. Was there a mistake when you generated the version to download?

By: bob

bob — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:10:50 +0000

I’ve always liked ProFont… http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/

By: Jens

Jens — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:30:52 +0000

Hi Roger, I have exact the same problem but using Flash as development tool. I tried your fix but it didnt work for me. I change the Flash preferences to accept font size 4 but Flash change the font to something else. In Flash, when you use Monaco 10 pt (default) font, Flash uses the bitmap font and does not seem to care about the system setting for font smoothing. My problem is that I use the 1920*1200 new MacBook Pro and Monaco 10pt is far to small. Does you or anyone else know how to use a larger bitmap font in Flash without anti-alias but still have the system setting for font smoothing to 8 or less – It would be greatly apprieciated!

/Jens