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Altera_Forum
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12 years ago

Fonts in ModelSim-Altera Look Hideous, Linux Mint

Hi all,

I've installed ModelSim-Altera and for some reason the fonts look terrible (really small, thin, and smudgy). The weird thing is that they appear fine in Quartus II (in addition to every other program I have run). One thing I noticed in this Linux version of ModelSim is that I don't get all of the typical linux fonts or truetype fonts like Courier New (I have msfonts installed) to choose from. Does anyone know of a way to change the settings to add anti-aliasing or font smoothing or change where ModelSim-Altera pulls fonts from?

FWIW, I have ModelSim SE installed in Wine and the fonts look great.

Thanks

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    12 years ago

    Don't know that answer, but agree. Running Ubuntu 12.04LTS and looking at the text in the code editor in Modelsim gives me a headache.

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    11 years ago

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    Don't know that answer, but agree. Running Ubuntu 12.04LTS and looking at the text in the code editor in Modelsim gives me a headache.

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    Hi ttamscanl I just wanted to provide an update. I recently found out my Nvidia graphics driver was not installed properly (It showed as 'Failed' after I ran 'inxi -Fxz' command). I just downloaded and installed the latest driver for my card and it fixed my text issues. Who would have guessed.