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IDE fonts are rendered poorly (effectively unusable) in 6.5, yet were fine in 6.1 so I guess something has changed? Same in JDK5 & JDK6.
Created attachment 67515 [details] Fonts OK in 6.1 IDE
Created attachment 67516 [details] 6.5 IDE same font but VERY difficult to read
Can you verify, that both IDEs run on very same JDK?
Yes, the font rendering issue occurs whether on top of JDK5 (6.5->JDK5 font "broken", 6.1->JDK5 font OK) or JDK6 (6.5->JDK6 font "broken", 6.1->JDK6 font OK).
I will give it a shot here: It seems that anti-aliasing is off in the second case - try to run IDE with a command line switch "-J-Dswing.aatext=true" and maybe "-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=true" too.
This sounds like a duplicate of issue #137845. Did you import settings from 6.1? If so, could you please try running the IDE with a fresh userdir (ie. --userdir /tmp/whatever) and check if it makes any difference? Thanks *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 137845 ***
I don't know if this is a duplicate - that one has antialiasing (ugly one) working, this one doesn't - problem looks a little different. But I will probably rather trust you in this... ;)
Hi vstejskal As you suggested, I have changes the userdir and the ide fonts are rendered perfectly. I guess it must be some setting brought in from 6.1 that screws up the 6.5 ide font rendering? I now have a usable IDE - many thanks. Nevertheless, the importing of previous settings should not screw the IDE up like this, so I guess there is some work to do to stop that happening?