Fonts gone crazy after installing v2_018 on Jetbrains [Java renderer]

[rahilwazir]

Fonts gone crazy after installing the v2.018 but its working fine with v2.010, I did restart Jetbrain IDE. Increasing/Decreasing font have still same effect.

[chrissimpkins]

Thanks for reporting it. Can you give us your platform, the editor, and indicate whether you are using the ttf or otf builds?

[rahilwazir]

Sure, here you go

• Win7 SP1 64bit
• Webstorm 10.0.4
• Using .ttf provided in readme

[rahilwazir]

Not sure should I open a new issue for this or not but using v2.010 shows same wierd fonts on multiline comments, when writing /** (double asterik)

Example:

[chrissimpkins]

We will take a look into the initial issue that you reported. This was a direct upgrade from the v2.010 to the v2.018 release?

[rahilwazir]

Yes It was

[chrissimpkins]

thanks!

[fruel]

Did a direct update from v2.010 to v2.018 today too.
Visual Studio, Sublime Text 3 and all other editors are fine but all JetBrains IDEs are messed up (Android Studio 1.5, PHPStorm 10, IntelliJ 15).

System:
Windows 10 Pro x64
Installed TTF version.

Never had any rendering issues prior to v2.018.

[chrissimpkins]

are messed up

Can you be more specific? Are you seeing character changes like in the OP image?

[fruel]

Sorry forgot - pretty much the same as OP reported it.

Example: Laravel composer.json file

Edit:

It should look like this:

And this is the settings dialog:

[chrissimpkins]

Seems to be some strange Windows + JB renderer-specific issue. Here is where I am in PyCharm 4.5 (old version) and the current PyCharm 5.0.2 release:

PyCharm 4.5

PyCharm 5.0.2

My understanding is that PyCharm uses the same Java based text renderer. I modified the text size to 12 and have line spacing at 1.0. This does not seem to influence the display on OS X.

Are either of you willing to submit an issue report on the JetBrains tracker to investigate this? I don't develop on a Windows platform and it will be difficult for me to work through the issue with them. I'd be happy to follow the thread, pitch in information from the standpoint of our fonts (including OpenType table settings if that is where this winds up existing) and implement any changes that they recommend if they are able to identify what is going on with the renderer in the Windows editors.

[chrissimpkins]

Will take a look at a diff of our OpenType table data between the 2.010 and 2.018 versions this week as well. Perhaps this will lead to some useful information.

If you are willing to take the time, would it be possible to check each of the release versions between 2.010 and 2.018 to determine where we introduced the problem? This might point us in the direction of an answer if it lies in the OpenType table settings.

[fruel]

It seems to be a general issue with the Java font renderer - not specific to JetBrains IDEs.

I wrote a quick test application using the generic Java Swing GUI system. It prints the text "Hello World" twice - on the left using Hack and on the right using the default monospaced font.

Sourcecode: https://gist.github.com/fruel/1e4471b5474708f9c3e1

Maybe someone else can confirm that other Java-based application are affected too.

Edit:
My Java version

java version "1.8.0_66"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_66-b18)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.66-b18, mixed mode)

[fruel]

Tested the old versions with the test application from the comment above. The issue starts with v2.017.
v2.015 and v2.016 (from here #126) are fine.