{"id":41,"date":"2012-03-05T08:16:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T15:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alexkorn.com\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2016-09-19T15:04:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T22:04:50","slug":"turning-off-text-anti-aliasing-with-netbeans-7-1-on-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexkorn.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/turning-off-text-anti-aliasing-with-netbeans-7-1-on-os-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning off text anti-aliasing with NetBeans 8.2, 8.1, 7.3, 7.2, 7.1 on OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">Update 2016\/09\/19: For NetBeans 8.1 or 8.2, just add &#8221; -J-Dorg.netbeans.editor.aa.text=false&#8221; to the line described below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">Update 2013\/02\/10: This also works with NetBeans 7.3.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">Update 2012\/07\/24: This post was originally written about 7.1. Everything here also applies to Netbeans 7.2, so I&#8217;ve update this to refer to 7.2.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnother version of NetBeans, another hack to get it to turn off text anti-aliasing. Previously, I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexkorn.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/turning-off-text-anti-aliasing-with-netbeans-7-on-os-x\/\">showed how with NetBeans 7.0<\/a>. NetBeans 7.3.x is nearly the same, but a bit simpler.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nJust make the following changes to the definition of <code>netbeans_default_options<\/code> in <code>\/Applications\/NetBeans\/NetBeans\\ 7.3.app\/Contents\/Resources\/NetBeans\/etc\/netbeans.conf<\/code> (or something similar if you didn&#8217;t install it in the default location):\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:0;\">Add:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\n-J-Dswing.aatext=false\r\n<\/pre>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:0;\">Change:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\n-J-Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=false\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>\nRestart NetBeans and you should have non-anti-aliased fonts.\n<\/p>\n<h2>Notes<\/h2>\n<p>\nNote that, unlike NetBeans 7.0, you no longer need to add <code>-J-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=off<\/code>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSee some <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.netbeans.org\/FaqFontRendering#Anti-aliasing_in_NetBeans_7.1\">notes about text anti-aliasing on the NetBeans wiki<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update 2016\/09\/19: For NetBeans 8.1 or 8.2, just add &#8221; -J-Dorg.netbeans.editor.aa.text=false&#8221; to the line described below. Update 2013\/02\/10: This also works with NetBeans 7.3. Update 2012\/07\/24: This post was originally written about 7.1. Everything here also applies to Netbeans 7.2, so I&#8217;ve update this to refer to 7.2. Another version of NetBeans, another hack to [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,9,22],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fonts","tag-mac-os-x","tag-netbeans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}