Changing the Font Size in Eclipse
A couple weeks ago I was preparing giving a three day training class on Model-Glue and Enterprise ColdFusion Development. (Interested in some onsite training? Send me an email!) Unfortunately, the default font size in Eclipse is way to small to see on a projector. It took me nearly half an hour to figure this out, so I thought I’d post how to do this for posterity’s sake:
Within Eclipse click Window > Preferences. This will open up the Preferences dialog with gives you about a million configuration settings to tweak.
At the top of the list on the left you will see General. Click to open this. Next click Appearances. Finally, select Colors and Fonts from under Appearances.
This is where it gets confusing. Eclipse shows a tree of what appear to be languages or plugins or something. Underneath each one are many options for specific types of text. There are many choices in this dialog with no clearly obvious one.
Well, the one you’re looking for is "Text Font" under the "Basic" node. Select this and click the "Change…" button that appears. From here, it’s just a matter of selecting the new font size and applying it.
Oh, and when you’re ready to go back to the old font size just click the Reset button to go back to your old settings.
Thanks a lot – probably saved me a lot of time on this stupid thing. It’s one of those things that are though dont seem that important but constantly nag
Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you Mr. Doug Hughes. i really impressed with the fonts i can see in eclipse. Thank you very munch
Thanks Mr. Hughes. I was looking for this setting from so many days.. It helped me a lot.
Thanks Mr. Hughes. I was looking for this setting from so many days.. It helped me a lot.
Thank you .. It was very helpful !!
ahhhhhhhh!!!!! I can see now….. so much better. Thank you
buy Strattera overnight ConditionalsCertain purchase Ultracet COD fungsi Topamax no dr contact jsalinsjrsatx nextday Amoxicillin belum ambien prescription purchase without lasted Zolpidem cod delivery rooms buy acomplia online without prescription mouses purchase ultram online animator
my God, i thought you were going to chip in with some decisive insght at the end there, not leave it with ‘we leave it to you to decide’.
http://wezon.freeweb7.com http://roxucuje.blackapplehost.com/map.html http://levgi.blackapplehost.com/map.html
??????? ????? rapidshare
http://fapaso.justfree.com http://horivuko.land.ru http://zapofacu.freewhost.com/map.html
???????????? ??????????? ???? ?????
vrotmnenogi
The Eclipse developers must have a manifesto somewhere saying the zoom function is evil and they intentionally left it out of Eclipse. Else there is no way to explanation why Eclipse is missing such fundamental functionality.
Thanks for posting this- has saved some (literal) headaches!
hey thanks a bunch
Thanks, mate, you saved me that half hour of trying to find out
Very helpfull mate, congrats.
Thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you. Spent about 20 minutes searching in eclipse and could not find this. Very helpful.
thank you so much!
Thanks a lot for the info…
Wonderful Tip…Thanks a lot..That was a quick help
it’s good that at least some people share useful information on Eclipse. perhaps you could do a tutorial?
I, for one, hate Eclipse.
THANKS…Couldnt figure it all by myself…
Thanks…for help. we are trying but exactly get confused at tree structure. Thanks a lot for sharing the useful information.
Thanks for the tip. Good thing google brings me to this
Thanks a lot. I searched google and apears this post that solved my problem
Thank you!
Thanks a lot. I finally got my favor Courier New font back om Eclipse.
Thanks for the tip
thank you! save me headache by looking at small fonts!
Thank you… you’re amazing cuz I’ve been looking for it too!
Thanks you, it’s help me much, i get confused to understand the structure, with your help i found what i want.
Thanks a lot. Twas so confusing. Got it finally
Hi,
Does anyone know how to change font size in those yellow boxes with help text that appear when hovering with the mouse above i e a function name??? It does not seem to be affected by changing font size the way described here.
thx!
was helpful!
was helpful.. thanks.
Thank you!! That’s pretty bad if I had to hit up Google to figure out how to change the font size. You saved me a lot of time!
Hmmm, the images on this page are missing. Plus I am not sure which is longer going through all the aweful Eclipse IDE settings or reading all the posts on this page…. ugh. Eclipse is too challenging, not worth the free pricetag.
Thank you very Much, It was really very helpful during presentation.
Thanks alot!
Thank you! You have to wonder why they would bury the one font you really need to change amongst so many others!
Thanks a lot, you are a life saver. this is exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks a lot
Note: Window=>Preferences => general=> appearance
There is a drop down menu called current theme
You can change the color pallette of the eclipse editor there easily
(Eg= known names as primitives, “null”, “this” … is basicly in violet. With system pallette, its black etc)
Thanks a lot! This helps me a lot