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Bugs item #3608045, was opened at 2013-03-14 11:06 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by stevescholnick You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100588&aid=3608045&group_id=588 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: text area and syntax packages Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Steven Scholnick (stevescholnick) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: MacOSX: jedit5 fonts look fuzzy Initial Comment: I've tried 5.0 and the most recent daily build and the fonts look fuzzy on MacOSX. Looks great on Red Hat Linux. I don't have access to a Windows machine. I am running the latest version of Java 6. I've tried this on 3 different macs. I attached screenshots for both versions. I had to take a screenshot of the screenshots because I can only attach 1 file. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Steven Scholnick (stevescholnick) Date: 2013-04-04 13:14 Message: makarius: that did the trick. Thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Makarius (makarius) Date: 2013-04-04 12:33 Message: OK, I am here. Steven, I think it is as simple as disabling the Apple Quartz renderer of Java 6, which was enabled by default in jedit-5.0.0. You can do this by creating an empty file called "noquartz" in the jEdit settings directory, which is normally Library/jEdit/ within your home. There are technical reasons for doing it outside the normal jEdit properties. What is a bit odd in jedit-5.0.0 is that there is no regular way to change that setting, but I think some "trunk" version of the MacOS plugin can do it. Note that various issues about jEdit on Mac OS X were recently discussed on the thread on the jedit-dev mailing list thread "should jEdit 5.1 depend on Java 6 or 7?" I think we need a criticial mass of enthusiams to make moves towards modernized platform support here. It also touches the question about including MacOS plugin functionality into the main code base, but I am myself not an expert on that plugin. We should move this discussion elsewhere ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Steven Scholnick (stevescholnick) Date: 2013-04-04 04:58 Message: Sure no problem. I'd be happy to volunteer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Alan Ezust (ezust) Date: 2013-04-03 21:59 Message: makarius, do you volunteer to help? We need another Mac developer on the team. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Steven Scholnick (stevescholnick) Date: 2013-03-15 05:16 Message: I've resorted to keeping jEdit 4.5.2 on my Macs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Makarius (makarius) Date: 2013-03-15 04:33 Message: I have myself struggled a lot with the various possibilities of getting jEdit and Java on Mac OS X wrong by default. Note that in jedit-5.0.0 there have been some changes of defaults -- it also depends on the configuration of the MacOSX plugin, which is not part of the main code base. Here are the main parameters: * Java 6 with or without the .jedit/noquartz option -- the Apple Quartz font renderer does things differently, and often worse. * Java 7 instead of Java 6 -- version 7 is presently not officially supported by jedit-5.0.0, but you may try that one here: https://isabelle.in.tum.de/ * Some soft Java options: according to my experience, antialias should be "standard" and fractional font metrics off (even though the comment says "for better smooth text display"). Note that I am merely a commenter here. I hope we can all sit down together and sort out jEdit on Mac OS X problems soon. Java 6 has been declared dead by Oracle already, and proper Java 7 configuration needs some fine-tuning, not just font rendering quality. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100588&aid=3608045&group_id=588 |