After upgrading to jedit 4.3pre17 I have got font display problems

Submitted by tomasio on Tuesday, 11 August, 2009 - 14:38

After upgrading to jedit 4.3pre17 my preferred programming font ("Profont 12") displays wrongly in the editing window. It is antialiased although I defined not to use this feature in the JEdit Text Settings I found under Global Options. For a Screenshot click the link below:
Jedit Text Settings

The line numbers in the gutter left to the editing area display correctly, although using the same font, as seen in the next screenshot:
JEdit Editor Window

All this worked untill the last version (4.3pre16). I am running MacOS 10.5.8 on a MacBookPro, maybe this has something to do with my OS? Any advice would be very appreciated.

displays better, but still antialiased in jEdit

by tomasio on Tue, 11/08/2009 - 20:30

Now that I remembered that pixelbased fonts have to be set to certain sizes to display correctly (profont was designed for 9, not for 10 px) the font displays better.

Anyhow, jEdit still displays the font antialiased compared to another MacOS software like FontAgent Pro, where the font reads sharply.

Trying another font, e. g. Monaco, does not change the antialiased font display, although I have antialiasing turned off in the settings of jEdit.

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kind regards,
tomasio
"describing an issue reveals the way to solve it"

gave up jedit for now, because of no reaction here :-/

by tomasio on Sun, 28/02/2010 - 20:17

I quit using jEdit because I feel left alone with my usage problems described above. Although this is not an important bug, it is annoying nonetheless if I know that the fonts have been aliased or sharp in one version and aren't any more in the next.

For the meantime I will use Textmate, which is much better integrated into the MacOS.

kind regards,
--
tomasio
"describing an issue reveals the way to solve it"

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