ProggyFonts and Eclipse on OS X

I’ve tried every way I could think of to get eclipse to stop anti-aliasing the editor font since I started using it over a year ago. I used to use ProggyTiny in my previous editors, as it’s a compact and easy to read font for coding.

I worked out today that ProggyFonts has a version of some of it’s fonts (the best ones) available in apple’s dfont format, which do not get antialiased by Eclipse. Just click on the file icon with the apple in it next to each font where available.

There’s a few little niggles with using these fonts, in your FDT or Eclipse settings, make sure you don’t set any syntax types to display in bold or italic, as the font doesn’t display.

June 15th, 2007 by gabriel in Mac, FDT, Eclipse, ActionScript 2.0

11 Comments so far

  1. Ephilei / June 22nd, 2007 7:44 pm

    I love your clock! Would you consider opening the source? I use it on my Win desktop but would like to see the wallpaper behind the clock.

  2. chris / June 22nd, 2007 8:10 pm

    can you use the word niggles?

  3. pixelbreaker / June 25th, 2007 3:30 pm

    why not?

  4. knvb1123 / July 4th, 2007 2:40 pm

    pixelbreaker, in the screenshot, which of the Proggy fonts is it?

    Also, you are a real flash genius, and I would like to ask you to take a look at this:
    http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=267206

    A lot of people don’t seem to know how to do and I think you can!

  5. mc83 / July 6th, 2007 6:01 pm

    @knvb1123:
    as the article states, the font used in the screenshot is ProggyTiny

    @pixelbreaker:
    great tip, i never knew there was such a font, thank you very much ;))

    great code coloring too!

  6. pixelbreaker / July 7th, 2007 9:33 pm

    knvb, you’re right, it’s not ProggyTiny, it’s ProggyOptiS, from the same foundry.

    I had a look at your post on Kirupa forums, there’s no easy way to get a return value from a method triggered by a dispatched event, sorry. I’m not really sure why you’d want to do this, as I can’t see where you’d be returning this value to?

  7. sema / August 21st, 2007 11:38 am

    Hi,

    I just love yours code coloring. Would it be a problem if you send me settings. It will be grat, thanks.

  8. 3stripe / September 15th, 2007 5:02 pm

    Neat idea. I like your colour-coding also. Care to share? :)

  9. nono / December 13th, 2007 6:23 am

    +1 = would love to see a proper list of your eclipse/fdt color-code settings.

  10. werbeagentur / January 8th, 2008 11:24 am

    I use eclipse for PHP & JAVA programming. But how can I implement a Plugin / Tool, so Eclipse is useable for Actionscript?

  11. rize, youtube / March 8th, 2008 10:21 am

    thanks you
    +1 = would love to see a proper list of your eclipse/fdt color-code settings.

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