Anti-alias fonts in Linux?
Submitted by on Thursday, 7 April, 2005 - 15:30
Hi all -
I'm a jedit newbie, and I've looked through the FAQ, as well as the wiki but couldn't find a simple answer to this question: "How can I use Anti-Alias fonts in jedit on Linux?"
It strikes me that jedit is a wonderful tool, but I can't see past the pervasively horrible font rendering. Program menus, dialog boxes, and of course the main edit window - the horrible java font rendering looks very much out of place on my KDE 3.4 desktop. In Utilities->Global Options->Text Area I have selected "Smooth Text" as well as "Fractional font metrics", which is a tremendous improvement, but the fonts still don't seem as good as in any KDE app. If I run 'kate' next to 'jedit' both using 'Monospaced', the rendering in 'kate' is much better.
I am using jedit4.2final on gentoo-64, with blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01 as the java back-end.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
I'm a jedit newbie, and I've looked through the FAQ, as well as the wiki but couldn't find a simple answer to this question: "How can I use Anti-Alias fonts in jedit on Linux?"
It strikes me that jedit is a wonderful tool, but I can't see past the pervasively horrible font rendering. Program menus, dialog boxes, and of course the main edit window - the horrible java font rendering looks very much out of place on my KDE 3.4 desktop. In Utilities->Global Options->Text Area I have selected "Smooth Text" as well as "Fractional font metrics", which is a tremendous improvement, but the fonts still don't seem as good as in any KDE app. If I run 'kate' next to 'jedit' both using 'Monospaced', the rendering in 'kate' is much better.
I am using jedit4.2final on gentoo-64, with blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01 as the java back-end.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
