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Bug 257240

Summary:	No font subpixel antialiasing on OS X
Product:	editor	Reporter:	emlai
Component:	Painting & Printing	Assignee:	Miloslav Metelka <mmetelka>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	tveimo
Priority:	P4
Version:	8.1
Hardware:	Macintosh (x86)
OS:	Mac OS X
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:

Description emlai 2015-12-21 10:28:45 UTC

For some reason, NetBeans doesn't use subpixel font antialiasing on OS X (10.11) with retina display. This makes the text in the editor look noticeably thinner and uglier than what OS X users are used to.

Also in addition to the editor view, none of the UI  labels are using subpixel antialiasing either.

I tried adding `-J-Dswing.aatext=true` and `-J-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd` to netbeans.conf, but to no avail.

Comment 1 tveimo 2016-08-09 13:55:34 UTC

See issue #249052 for workaround with patched openJDK 8 to run with subpixel font rendering.