How To: Get anti-aliased fonts in the Arduino and Processing IDE’s
Problem:
Arduino and Processing IDE’s both are java applications and don’t use anti-aliasing when displaying fonts on OS X.
Solution:
Add the Java Swing options to enable anti aliasing to the Info.plist file that OS X uses to launch the IDE’s.
Steps:
Right click the Arduino.app in the Finder and select ‘Show Package Contents’, double click the Contents directory and there you will find the Info.plist file. Open it in a text editor of your choice.
Add the following two lines under the Java option. See the screenshot for the exact location.
<key>VMOptions</key></string>
<string>-Dswing.aatext=true
Now your code editor goes from looking like this crapness:
To this hotness:
And even better you can use great looking fonts like Inconsolata and get an editor that looks this good:
You’re into Processing and Arduino, too?! Awesome! Hope you blog more about any Arduino stuff you do!
3-4 weeks ago, I was at hacknight in Phoenix and was able to get some Processing->Arduino stuff working — using mouse interaction (click/position) to remotely control my Arduino Mega.
I just completed a few pretty cool hardware prototypes using Arduino’s for the brains.
I’ll see how much I can share with the world and hopefully post some pics/videos.
-josh
Josh–Thanks for this. I was hoping someone had figured this out already. In Processing 1.0.9, and maybe some previous releases as well, there is already a VMOptions section, so I just added the
-Dswing.aatext=true
into the array.