Can I Disable Anti-Aliasing in Code View??

[molaro]

When I work in dreamweaver I use the code view 85% of the time. As such I have made changes to the code display to lessen the amount of eye strain I get (like back backgrounds with colored code, etc). One of the things that I would like to do but can't seem to figure out is to disable anti-aliasing on the code I type. I currently use Monaco as my font. At 7pt my code is nice and crisp against the black background. BUT its a little hard to read. If I bump it up to 11pt or 12pt to make it easier to read, DW (or the MAC) is anti-aliasing the text giving it a slightly blurry look. Is there a way to have larger point sized fonts that will look sharp and crisp in the code editor?? Or can somebody suggest a better font that will look a lot crisper at 11pt?

Here are links to see what I am talking about:
12 pt Example
7 pt Example

[Newsgroup_User]

molaro wrote:
> When I work in dreamweaver I use the code view 85% of the time. As such I have
> made changes to the code display to lessen the amount of eye strain I get (like
> back backgrounds with colored code, etc). One of the things that I would like
> to do but can't seem to figure out is to disable anti-aliasing on the code I
> type. I currently use Monaco as my font. At 7pt my code is nice and crisp
> against the black background. BUT its a little hard to read. If I bump it up
> to 11pt or 12pt to make it easier to read, DW (or the MAC) is anti-aliasing the
> text giving it a slightly blurry look. Is there a way to have larger point
> sized fonts that will look sharp and crisp in the code editor?? Or can
> somebody suggest a better font that will look a lot crisper at 11pt?
>
> Here are links to see what I am talking about:
> http://dev.pstrat.com/phil/images/12pt.png
> http://dev.pstrat.com/phil/images/7pt.png

Wow, we both must have very different eyes, I can't read text on a black
background without horizontal lines appearing in front of my eyes within
seconds. Any website that has text on a dark website gets closed
straight away by me, it does my head in.

But in answer to your question, I don't think Dreamweaver can control
anti-aliasing, but your OS does, so you may want to explore things like
font smoothing or whatever its called.

Steve

[molaro]

Thanks for the suggestion. I only use the dark background for when I am writing code in DW. Before, using the white by the end of the day I was getting headaches like crazy. Now with the switch I don't get them at all. I call it "dark coding".

Any hoo, I have played with the system settings. They only change the OS related things like menus and DW tabs and what not. They make no changes on their own to the code view display in DW. Thats why I think it's something set in DW.

Maybe this is all am eye illusion. If my bigger font wasn't anti-aliased it would look worse. I think they thing that is getting me is how bright and crisp the 7pt looks versus the duller 12pt. The brighter crisper is what I am looking for.

[Newsgroup_User]

.oO(molaro)

>Thanks for the suggestion. I only use the dark background for when I am
>writing code in DW. Before, using the white by the end of the day I was
>getting headaches like crazy. Now with the switch I don't get them at all. I
>call it "dark coding".

;)

But light text on black can be as straining for the eyes as dark text on
white. To avoid blinding white backgrounds I use a dimmed color scheme
in my entire Windows system, not only in a particular application.
Additionally I've set my monitor to a reduced (but "warmer") color
temperature of 6500K instead of the default 9300K. Even if this was more
or less just for my work with graphics and photographs, it also helps
while coding.

Micha

[anderskall]

My Dreamweaver was blurry and had antialiased code undtil i zoomed out too 100% in display settings on Windows 10.

Right click desktop -> Display settings, and drag the slider to 100%.

Now my Dreamweaver are crisp and sharp again