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the editor font looks terrible, hardly readable. i've tried editing two different preferences.txt file and one theme.txt file. nothing seems to change these fonts.
i am running ubuntu linux v9.10

any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Jeff

[Reply #1 on:]

Hi,
you can set the size of the font in the preferences-dialog File->Prerences or edit the file that is mentioned on the dialog.

Some stupid code in the IDE seems to switch off font antialiasing on the editor. So you can't really use any sensible Font in the IDE. 'Inconsolata' looks horrible for instance. So I'm back to monospaced size 18.

Eberhard
  

[Reply #2 on:]

so is somebody working on fixing this for linux? because it looks wonderful on the mac.

also is it really spelled Monospaced and not Monospace. and for what it's worth i tried changing the spelling and it makes absolutely no difference which leads me to believe that it is ignoring this setting anyway. in fact you can even time garbage in these font fields and it will still look the same.
hmmmm......

Jeff

[Reply #3 on:]

so is somebody working on fixing this for linux?

No.
Arduino GUI-Development stops when it looks good on a Mac and Windows.

The IDE is the only GUI-editor on the planet (probably in the whole universe) that does not have a font-selection dialog.

Eberhard

[Reply #4 on:]

is there somewhere that we can send a feature request to?

[Reply #5 on:]

Bug reports go here
http://code.google.com/p/arduino/issues/list

Eberhard

[Reply #6 on:]

I am running V18 on Ubuntu 9.10 as well and the UI looks pretty good to me. I am wondering if you somehow changed your system font settings or are using some kind of themes?

[Reply #7 on:]

can you email me off list your preferences.txt file?

what font does it say you are using?

also how do you change the system font? i don't even know how to do this.

Thanks
Jeff

[Reply #8 on:]

Here are the fonts settings (I don't remember ever changing them, so they must be the default:)

editor.font=Monospaced,plain,12
editor.font.macosx=Monaco,plain,10

And here's the whole preference.txt (note that I have removed some file paths specific to my settings):

update.id=395532480225780957
target=arduino
export.application.platform.windows=true
preproc.save_build_files=false
preproc.substitute_floats=true
run.options=
run.display=1
editor.divider.size=0
serial.port=/dev/ttyUSB1
preproc.enhanced_casting=true
editor.divider.size.windows=2
browser=mozilla
last.sketch2.location=858,83,1000,1000,828
last.sketch1.path=
editor.font=Monospaced,plain,12
console.auto_clear=true
console.output.file=stdout.txt
last.sketch.count=0
export.application.platform=true
default.window.height=1000
export.application.stop=true
serial.parity=N
serial.databits=8
board=atmega328
preproc.output_parse_tree=false
editor.external=false
editor.indent=true
last.screen.height=1200
upload.using=bootloader
run.present.bgcolor=#666666
preproc.web_colors=true
editor.tabs.expand=true
run.present.stop.color=#cccccc
preproc.color_datatype=true
last.screen.width=1920
export.application.platform.linux=true
launcher=gnome-open
export.application.platform.macosx=true
editor.antialias=false
export.applet.separate_jar_files=false
editor.tabs.size=2
console.error.file=stderr.txt
preproc.substitute_unicode=true
console=true
run.present.exclusive.macosx=true
console.lines=4
run.options.memory.maximum=256
browser.linux=mozilla
preproc.imports=java.applet,java.awt,java.awt.image,java.awt.event,java.io,java.net,java.text,java.util,java.util.zip,java.util.regex
update.check=true
last.sketch0.path=
last.sketch2.path=
run.window.bgcolor=#DFDFDF
sketchbook.path=
last.sketch0.location=510,150,1000,1000,828
update.last=1271635400408
export.delete_target_folder=true
platform.auto_file_type_associations=true
default.window.width=1000
editor.caret.blink=true
serial.stopbits=1
serial.debug_rate=9600
run.options.memory.initial=64
run.options.memory=false
last.sketch1.location=510,150,1000,1000,828
editor.invalid=false
editor.font.macosx=Monaco,plain,10
export.application.fullscreen=false
console.length=500
run.present.exclusive=false

[Reply #9 on:]

mine is basically identical. hmm...
do you know the proper way to uninstall and reinstall?

[Reply #10 on:]

By any chance you can post the screenshot of your Arduino IDE? Anyway, assuming that you installed your Arduino using apt-get, you might want to first remove it (apt-get remove...) and then download the latest version directly from http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software.

I downloaded mine directly and didn't use apt-get.

[Reply #11 on:]

not sure how top add attachments to forum post?

[Reply #12 on:]

This is what you're aiming for : This is on Ubuntu 9.10



You need to put the screen shot on a separate hosting site (flickr for example) and then use the insert image button and add the URL between the directives that are added.

[Reply #13 on:]

Using ubuntu 9.10 aswell, my IDE looks the same as posted by pluggy.
So doesn't appear to be a bug inherint in ubuntu.

[Reply #14 on:]

I noticed today that the editor fonts looked really bad on karmic 9.10 and they were fine last time I used the IDE.

I think there was a sun JDK 6 update last week sometime and I bet that's the problem.

Anyway, I found that changing editor.antialias in the preferences.txt file made it look much better.
It was:
editor.antialias=false
and I changed it to:
editor.antialias=true

Much better.