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Bug 145683 - Editor Font Severely Distorted in Vista (x86)
Summary: Editor Font Severely Distorted in Vista (x86)
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 137845
Alias: None
Product: editor
Classification: Unclassified
Component: -- Other -- (show other bugs)
Version: 6.x
Hardware: All Windows Vista
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: issues@editor
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2008-08-30 15:13 UTC by djrobbins
Modified: 2008-08-31 00:32 UTC (History)
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See Also:
Issue Type: DEFECT
Exception Reporter:


Attachments
Screenshot of Distorted Editor Font (117.94 KB, image/gif)
2008-08-30 15:13 UTC, djrobbins
Details

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Description djrobbins 2008-08-30 15:13:08 UTC
Font distorted to the point some fonts are not legible. Turning off ClearType and restarting Netbeans does not resolve
the issue.
Comment 1 djrobbins 2008-08-30 15:13:50 UTC
Created attachment 68709 [details]
Screenshot of Distorted Editor Font
Comment 2 djrobbins 2008-08-30 15:17:47 UTC
I was checking out Netbeans. I'm currently an Eclipse/Aptana user. I was interested in all the languages Netbeans
supports among also being free. I'm highly disappointed with the font rendering in the Netbeans editor (sorry). 

Is this something that can be fixed on my end or is this an actual problem with the rendering?
Comment 3 Petr Dvorak 2008-08-31 00:32:22 UTC
Hi djrobins!

We are aware of this issue, see:

http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=137845

This is a regression from 6.1 - font anti-aliasing is broken for some reason in 6.5. I don't know it surely, but it
might be a result of a large migration of editor settings...

Above-mentioned issue contains a workaround - start netbeans with command line switch "-J-Dswing-aatext=false" (or
"-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=false", see
http://www.nabble.com/NB-6.5---how-disable-anti-aliasing-in-the-editor--to18737075.html) to disable editor's anti-aliasing.

With best regards,

Petr Dvorak

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 137845 ***