Why is Netbeans 8 IDE very slow when font size in increased? - netbeans-8

Increasing the font of the editor (either thru the command line or the editor settings) to a large font make the editor slow and unusable on a Mac (with 8Gb). This seems to have gotten worse in version 8.
I've updated netbeans.conf as follows:
netbeans_default_options="--fontsize 14 -J-client -J-Xss128m -J-Xms32m -J-XX:PermSize=256m -J-XX:MaxPermSize=1024m -J-Dapple.laf.useScreenMenuBar=true -J-Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=true -J-Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true -J-Dsun.java2d.dpiaware=true -J-Dsun.zip.disableMemoryMapping=true"
Has anyone experienced a similar problem and were you able to resolve it?
Thanks

The problem is not with NetBeans, but with the JDK. There's a Java/JDK bug affecting Retina displays, and it was only recently fixed in the Early Access JDK (8u40). Get the latest JDK 8 EA and that should fix it.

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IntelliJ text looks HUGE after update to 2019.2

I updated IntelliJ to 2019.2 this morning. After the update, all the fonts (actually, fonts and widgets) on the window look absolutely HUGE (even the splashscreen is much bigger when it starts). Main window has the look (in terms of the size of widgets) as being in presentation mode, more or less.
I tried decreasing the size of the fonts in Settings -> Appearance & Behavior - > Appearance (set it to 8) and in Settings -> Font (also set to 8). And the font in the text editor now is back to almost usable (still a little bigger that I'd like) and the menu text as well.... but everything else still looks too big (buttons, tabs, text on the tabs that are on the left side)... so, it's CRAZY. How can I get it back to normal?
I'm on ubuntu 19.04 (actually running KDE) and using OpenJDK.
PS I just downloaded 2019.1 and tried starting it. It looks normal, the way I expect it to. I'm downloading 2019.2 now and let's see what happens what I start it (not from the updated IDE directory).
Just checked starting 2019.2. It looks the way it looked when I started from the updated one. Will stick to using 2019.1 for the time being.
Please refer to the HiDPI configuration document, there were some changes in handling HiDPI on Linux with the move to JetBrains Runtime 11.
It may help if you switch to the IDE-managed HiDPI mode (legacy mode) by adding
-Dsun.java2d.uiScale.enabled=false
in Help | Edit Custom VM Options and restarting the IDE.

UI Text not rendering properly with Intellij IDEA and MacType

I wanted to make Intellij IDEA on windows look like the one on OS X Because in
my opinion it looks much better, so I installed MacType, I was able to get the
editor font render correctly, but when I change the UI font to match OS X's UI
font, The text gets cut off in some places. The font I am trying to use is
Lucida Grande size 15. You can see it for yourself in the picture
below:
Intellij UI Text getting cut: https://i.stack.imgur.com/4jnda.png
But if I remove disable MacType rendering, everything works fine, but it looks bad.
Intellij UI Text without MacType rendering: https://i.stack.imgur.com/AJEUl.png
I've tried changing MacType's settings, but nothing works!
I am on Windows 10 Creators Update with Intellij IDEA 2017.2
Any help would be appreciated.
I found the answer myself! Apparently if you open the mactype profile you are using with notepad, and paste the following text at the end of the file:
[Experimental#idea64.exe]
ClipBoxFix=1
Then all the fonts will render correctly. Note, this does not only work for Intellij IDEA, but also all other java applications and a few others. To achieve this, all you have to do is replace "idea64.exe" with the name of the app executable. An example is for the 32-bit version of Intellij, you would replace "idea64.exe" with "idea.exe".
More information can be found here: https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype/wiki/ClipBoxFix

Weird shifting spaces in the middle of code

I've got a really weird problem with PhpStorm - I've used it for years now, and it's been fantastic. Recently though, it's started putting weird spaces in the middle of lines where there aren't any:
But then when I click into the line, it suddenly shifts the spacing (here I clicked immediately before the " character - after a block of spacing):
If I press backspace, the y is deleted.
Does anyone have any idea what's causing this to happen, and how to fix it?
Edit: I'm running PhpStorm 2016.2 on OSX 10.11.5
PhpStorm 2016.2
Build #PS-162.1121.38, built on July 12, 2016
JRE: 1.8.0_76-release-b216 x86_64
JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o
I'm having the same issue with Webstorm version 2016.3 OS X
It is the Font/Size combination in Preferences > Editor > Color & Fonts > Font
For me the culprit was 'Source Code Pro' font at size 14. Any other size at that font (...,12,13,15,16...) goes back to normal (no weird spaces)
I suspect there are other font/size combinations that could cause similar symptoms.
In short: Change your font or size in Preferences > Editor > Color & Fonts > Font
I was experiencing the exact same thing with 2016.2.
To fix it...
I deleted the PhpStorm2016.2 application. Then, I deleted several files (listed below) associated with the install.
~/Library/Preferences/PhpStorm2016.2
~/Library/Caches/PhpStorm2016.2
~/Library/Logs/PhpStorm2016.2
Finally, I re-install Phpstorm2016.2. Imported my settings. And everything was back to normal.

Why is the font in the new IntelliJ IDEA 14.1 not rendering properly?

I've just upgraded IntelliJ IDEA (ultimate) to Version 14.1 and the font used in the Project View, Menus and Dialogs seems not to be rendering correctly. I exported the same settings from my 14.0.3 version just in case, although they seem identical, but it still remained the same. I didn't do any changes to the JDK or anything, and if I run the old version the font changes back to the nice and crisp one. I am using Ubuntu 14.04. This problem does not happen on Windows 7.
Under IntelliJ IDEA 14.0.3:
Under IntelliJ IDEA 14.1:
In the new one the font seems to be a bit larger (even though in both cases I they are set to Font Size 22, and I imported the settings from the previous IntelliJ IDEA installation). Notice how for example the 'g' is cut off underneath. There are also other problems where the text is misaligned on the buttons, or not fully visible in dialog boxes.
Usually this doesn't happen when I upgrade. Is there some way to make the font look like before? Did something changed in this latest version and I need to do some JVM switch in the startup script or something?
Update: 5/11/2015
Just updated to IntelliJ 15, and the problem is still there.
Attached new screenshot. Notice how the text is cut out at the bottom where there are letters like p and y, and the button text is offset.
Seconding an earlier response to this question, I have also have had great luck fixing font rendering issues on IntelliJ using tuxjdk. Tuxjdk is a JDK for the IDE, while any applications you're coding on runs in their own project configured JDK such as Oracle or OpenJDK. Here are the instructions:
The following fetches, unpacks, and moves the version you need to /usr/lib, then cleans up the archive. Modify /usr/lib to wherever you like to keep your JDKs.
wget http://urshulyak.com:85/jdk-8u5-tuxjdk-b08.tar.gz
tar -zxvf jdk-8u5-tuxjdk-b08.tar.gz
sudo mv jdk-8u5-tuxjdk-b08 /usr/lib
rm jdk-8u5-tuxjdk-b08.tar.gz
Open up idea.sh in your IntelliJ application folder /idea-IU-141.*/bin. Change the following line at the bottom of the script from
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$IDE_BIN_HOME:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" "$JDK/bin/java" \
to
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$IDE_BIN_HOME:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" "/usr/lib/jdk-8u5-tuxjdk-b08/bin/java" \
That's it. This made huge font improvements for me in Ubuntu 14.04.
UPDATE (by OP)
This solution is the best so far (until JetBrains decide to fix it properly).
I would just add the line: IDEA_JDK="/usr/lib/jdk-8u25-tuxjdk/" to the top of idea.sh, which the script checks before resorting to JDK_HOME etc. (so is probably the recommended way) rather than messing with the LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
In my case I got nicely rendered but huge fonts with this solution. In order to fix it I had to do an extra fix from Appearance & Behaviour -> Appearance
I chose the 'not recommended' option to Override default fonts by Arial size 12. This was the best effect I got so far.
I am using OSX. It may not help.
Double tap shift and search for 'Switch IDE boot JDK'. Try different JDKs if there are.
This might not be the answer you are looking for - but ever since I've started using tuxjdk, I haven't had problems any more with font rendering & intellij on ubuntu. Maybe give it a try?
If you're willing to use the IntelliJ 15 EAP, there is an option for antialiasing (default is checked for me) that appears to match how it was rendered in 14. The option is under Appearance & Behavior -> Appearance:
I have tried all of the command-line arguments to try to get this behavior in 14.1, but was unsuccessful.

Windows 8 XAML possible bug - using images causes text controls to disappear

I have a strange problem happening intermittently with my apps where textbox controls would disappear intermittently. I have narrowed the cause of this down to having image files (small logos etc) on my page.
I have managed to create a simple project which contains an xaml page with an image and 2 textblocks (these are in grids).
I have found on two test tablets that I can re-create the problem by going to task manager and creating a dump file for the running app.
After I do this twice and resume the app, the two textblocks disappear.
This exact problem is happening intermittently in my live apps.
Has anyone any ideas why this might be happening or what I should try next? I have no idea why creating a dump file forces the issue.
You can see a video of me re-creating the issue here:
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=DF2BE823348DEA6C!74381&authkey=!AIvSU05r0363S3Y&ithint=video%2cMOV
The test project in the video can be downloaded from here:
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=DF2BE823348DEA6C!74382&authkey=!AIGHSdezFcCbEZQ&ithint=file%2czip
So far I can re-create it with the exact same steps on my two different tablets - both running Windows 8.1 Pro 32bit.
If you are familiar with sideloading apps and you have a 64bit tablet I would be really appreciative if someone was able to test out the exact same steps as seen in the video.
Any help would be extremely appreciated as I am clueless as to where to go next.
I finally got to the bottom of this. The problem was down to the intel graphics driver that was installed on the tablets.
An updated driver was released around April which seemed to resolve the issue.
I have observed this problem of disappearing controls on views that do not contain image files but rather a background image. After reading your method of how to reproduce the issue, I've since removed the background image and replaced with a LinearGradientBrush and retested with the dump file process. The problem seems to have disappeared. (I'm running 32-bit as well.)