What's the default font that Eclipse uses for Java code?
The default font Eclipse uses for (Java) code is Monospace.
The default font style eclipse is using is Consolas however Courier New is also a good option to go with.
Depending on your Eclipse version, the font might differ. Go to Window-> Preferences->General->Appearance->Color and Fonts. Choose Basic->Text Font and you can hit the Edit button to change font type and font size. It will be used by several other properties below that default to this font.
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I have gone through many topics related to this issue. It seems like Open type font is supported for Swing, but isn't supported for Graphics2D in Java7. It still allow me to create new font based on a .otf file but it doesn't generate text when I try to write it to an image.
Font font = Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT, new File("font.otf"));
Has anyone faced the same? Please share your solution.
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As said in this link, Open Type Font is supported but I can't find any toppic show how to use this font in practice.
For those who faced the same problem. I found out that my current Java version (1.7.0_151) couldn't handle OTF file.
I upgrade to JDK 7 b97 (or older), then the problem is gone.
I can change font size of pop-up documentation from right corner(gear icon).
But i have to re-set documentation font for different classes.
Is there any way to set the default documentation font size from preferences?
Please consider the more recent versions of the IDE. E.g. at the IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2.3 the font size value set in a documentation pop-up can be set only once and will be applied for all classes.
Does anyone know of an existing solution for font glyph fallthrough in Java? For example, our designers have decided that Calibri is the font that mostly fits our needs, but if I specify Calibri, it can naturally not render characters that do not have a matching glyph in that font. In that case, I would need it to fall through to a second specified font, and if all else fails - use one of Java's logical fonts.
Has anyone come up with a solution for this, which can be plugged into existing Swing components without having to write custom Swing components for the entire project?
This is a very old project already, and building custom graphical components is not a feasible solution.
This isn't a code-based solution and probably won't be of much help, since it requires each user to install a file locally, but just in case...
You can add fallback fonts in a special directory within the JRE installation. From the Java documentation:
Users can add a physical font as a fallback font to logical fonts used in Java 2D rendering by installing it in the lib/fonts/fallback directory within the JRE.
I have asked this question on askubuntu thinking that it may be related to ubuntu but now that I think about it, it may rather be related to eclipse so I wanted to ask in here as well.
I'm using eclipse on my ubuntu 12.04 system. Currently the default font in eclipse is set to monospace (mostly) although my system monospace font defaults to ubuntu mono (checked from gnome-tweak-tool). I have found this in the eclipse documentation where it says
By default, the Workbench uses the fonts and colors provided by the operating system. However, there are a number of ways that this behavior can be customized.
I was wondering why eclipse is not using my system fonts. I can change the font from the preferences but there are a lot of different font settings for different places and I am using a few different eclipse's on my system so it would be nice to find something that would work globally.
I have some Swing code (written in 1.6 for 1.6) that specifically sets the font in a text area to Courier, but on some Windows systems, this shows up as Arial (the system default?) instead. Does that mean a font is missing from the system? What is the behavior Java has when it can't find a font it is looking for? Does it complain? Does it log it somewhere? Does it immediately resort to using the system default? Is the behavior different between 1.4/1.5/1.6 versions of the JVM?
Has anyone else ever run into this? I was very surprised to have something different from what I HARDCODED into the application show up in the UI - and only on some systems. The core issue is that I need a monospaced font style for this particular case, and Arial is not monospaced. Is there some way to specify a fallback if a certain font is not found? Something like:
if font is available use "Courier"
else use "monospaced"
???
You should first check if "Courier" is among the results of GraphicsEnvironment.getAvailableFontFamilyNames()
I don't know any built-in mechanism in Java for "if-unavailable-fallback-to" behavior.
According to this article1 the only monospaced TrueType fonts shipped by Microsoft are Courier New and Lucida Sans Typewriter.
It might expect you to specify "Courier New" for Courier. I don't have a Windows system, so I can't verify this.