I'm a Linux newbie and started using Aptana as my development IDE. I love the features. The only problem I'm facing is that the fonts used in the program tabs are very large and out of proportions. I tried changing all kinds of parameter in the properties window but no luck. Does anybody know how to change the font size. Am I overlooking something?
It looks an open bug, but there are some answer this question:
How do you change the font Aptana Studio 3.5.0 editor tabs?
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I recently migrated from visual studio code to visual studio (because vsc and unity wouldn't be friends), and my only gripe is minor, yet a major annoyance: Despite all other text looking fine and crisp, collapsed region headers are so blurry they border on unreadable on my small screen (See image).
I can't find any applicable settings or previous threads. I'm working from a mac, have yet to add any extensions, and use only default settings (except for dark mode ofc). Any ideas for causes or solutions would be greatly appreciated :)
Edit:
Am I just looking in the wrong place for my settings? Is Apple hiding stuff from me again?:
Just to be clear, I'm aware I can customise the font used in the editor window of VSCode to just about any monospaced font I like. I am not asking about what font is used in the editor. I am asking if anyone knows what font is being used by VSCode for the rest of its interface?
I appreciate this is an unusual design question. But it's to do with my IDE and I need to confirm for a theme project I'm maintaining.
Cheers,
Thanks to more docs, some trial and error, and even Wikipedia I can confirm that the font used in VSCode's own interface is SF Pro when running on Mac OS. I'm assuming that it is SF Pro Text and not SF Pro Display, given the use case. I've reversed engineered the interface during theme development in order to help determine.
just got a bit messy with my font size in Windows. For example the vba in excel:
font size in vba
I've tried all settings in “Control Panel->Personalize->Window Color->Advanced appearance settings”
Advanced appearance settings
It also appears in dialogue boxes from the Internet Explorer. The font is so small, that it is hard to read. Firefox and Chrome are fine.
Dialogue boxes
Actually I don't know how it got to all this mess and I'll get more and more frustrated.
But maybe someone knows the answer to get it back.
Already set the font setting in Windows to default.
By the way I'm using Windows 7.
thx a lot
Just found the answer.
Delete and reinstall the windows fonts.
http://withsteps.com/404/how-i-restored-my-windows-7-default-fonts.html
I just got VS 2010 beta 1, but the text in the text editor is thin, ie not anti aliased, smoothed or cleartyped. It's hard to read. Is there a setting to adjust it, similar to the one in the OS.
This is a known issue with the beta. See the readme. Section 2.4.2.2 "Text may appear slighly blurry".
They are working on a fix and recommend you stick with Consolas font for English, for now.
This will be fixed in Beta 2 once WPF integrates with the DirectWrite code in the latest versions of DirectX.
To workaround this, we decided to override the OS Setting and always for ClearType smoothing to be on when Consolas is the editor font. This way the user who isn't particular about fonts gets the best behaviour and if the user wants to have a non-clear type experience the will also need to switch their font which they would have to do anyways.
ClearType cannot be disabled in source code windows
Let me know if changing the font from Consolas works for you.
The Microsoft H4X0RS decided to force users to adopt ClearType when using Consolas font (scroll down until you see the heading Consolas always uses ClearType)
The way to fix this is to install the Text Sharp extension (yes, you read right, you need to install an extension to turn off BlurType -- ie to have your system-wide setting of no anti-aliasing applied)
How the people who did this got away with it I'll never know.
There is an extension that can help with this:
http://www.svprogramming.net/text-sharp/index.html
You have to both turn it off in the display options and the performance options:
Visual Studio 2010 Text Clarity: ClearType Options
I just got VS 2010 beta 1, but the text in the text editor is thin, ie not anti aliased, smoothed or cleartyped. It's hard to read. Is there a setting to adjust it, similar to the one in the OS.
This is a known issue with the beta. See the readme. Section 2.4.2.2 "Text may appear slighly blurry".
They are working on a fix and recommend you stick with Consolas font for English, for now.
This will be fixed in Beta 2 once WPF integrates with the DirectWrite code in the latest versions of DirectX.
To workaround this, we decided to override the OS Setting and always for ClearType smoothing to be on when Consolas is the editor font. This way the user who isn't particular about fonts gets the best behaviour and if the user wants to have a non-clear type experience the will also need to switch their font which they would have to do anyways.
ClearType cannot be disabled in source code windows
Let me know if changing the font from Consolas works for you.
The Microsoft H4X0RS decided to force users to adopt ClearType when using Consolas font (scroll down until you see the heading Consolas always uses ClearType)
The way to fix this is to install the Text Sharp extension (yes, you read right, you need to install an extension to turn off BlurType -- ie to have your system-wide setting of no anti-aliasing applied)
How the people who did this got away with it I'll never know.
There is an extension that can help with this:
http://www.svprogramming.net/text-sharp/index.html
You have to both turn it off in the display options and the performance options:
Visual Studio 2010 Text Clarity: ClearType Options