Re: Turning off font smoothing in source code windows?
Re: Turning off font smoothing in source code windows?
- Subject: Re: Turning off font smoothing in source code windows?
- From: Bryan Pietrzak <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:55:11 -0600
On Nov 21, 2004, at 3:08 AM, Alex Eddy wrote:
On Nov 20, 2004, at 12:07 PM, Bryan Pietrzak wrote:
Problem is that Xcode anti-aliases the font (when set to 9 pt) and
then
the MPW font looks just terrible. I can certainly "Turn off text
smoothing for sizes 9 and smaller" in System Preferences ->
Appearance,
but that's a system-wide behavior and all I want is text smoothing off
in Xcode source windows using the MPW font.
Any secret prefs I can set? :)
Not really a secret, but you can control the system's antialiasing
threshold on a per-application basis.
For example:
defaults write com.apple.xcode AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 15
OK, that worked just fine. I set the threshold to 9 and now the MPW
font looks great and matches BBEdit and CW's appearance.
There is another pref which is less known:
AppleSmoothFixedFontsSizeThreshold. That one only affects certain
fixed width fonts like Monaco. Not sure if it will work with the MPW
font.
Tried that and it failed. I suspect because the MPW font is not seen as
a Fixed Width font by the OS (i.e. it does not appear in the Fixed
Width collection in the Font panel). I'm going to have to research how
the OS determines a font is Fixed Width. Perhaps there is something
that can be added to the MPW font so the OS knows it's fixed width.
I've found that antialiased 9pt ProFont is best for coding... but
that's just IMHO...
Yeah, thanks, I've seen and tried ProFont. It's just hard for me to
move away from the MPW font. I think I have some "visual muscle memory"
that's just made me really really comfortable with the MPW font and
not-so-comfortable with any other font. :)
Bryan
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