# Antialias everywhere

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/antialias-everywhere/7695>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [December 11, 2013, 10:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/antialias-everywhere/7695 "2013-12-11T22:23:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![JGJohnson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jgjohnson/32/29582_2.png) [@JGJohnson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JGJohnson)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 10:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/antialias-everywhere/7695/1 "2013-12-11T22:23:46Z")

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The more I use the designer the more I’ve seen that it is a professional grade design platform that provides the tools needed to make top quality user interfaces. The only exception in my opinion is the lack of anti-aliasing in a few areas.

Button text has no anti-alias option and the same is true for tables and radio buttons. There may be others but those are the only ones that come to mind. Mixing components on a page where some are anti-aliased and some are not looks really bad.

Please enable anti-aliasing for all text in Ignition.

Thanks  
 ![:afro:](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/3/3770a0bd4ab78c761044cebb66a2091a91530dd5.gif ":afro:")

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**Author:** ![nmudge](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nmudge/32/3394_2.png) [@nmudge](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nmudge)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 10:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/antialias-everywhere/7695/2 "2013-12-11T22:25:53Z")

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+1

And I like the hair.

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**Author:** ![diat150](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a587f6/32.png) [@diat150](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/diat150)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 3:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/antialias-everywhere/7695/3 "2013-12-12T15:30:19Z")

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I remember one of our previous developers figured out a way to force everything to antialiasing. I want to say he was passing a parameter in when the client started, I just dont remember how.

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**Author:** ![diat150](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a587f6/32.png) [@diat150](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/diat150)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/antialias-everywhere/7695/4 "2013-12-13T19:17:17Z")

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See our previous developers response below. It looks like he was able to add an argument that enabled anti-aliasing for everything. This is beyond my capabilities and knowledge, but I thought maybe someone else or the IA staff could enlighten us on using this method, and if it is feasible.

> [@](#):
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> ```
> It was a set of arguments I set when launching the VM. On a quick google, you might be able to try the "vm arguments" here:
> 
> [stackoverflow.com/questions/1799 ... -java-apps](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/179955/how-do-you-enable-anti-aliasing-in-arbitrary-java-apps)
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> -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on -Dswing.aatext=true
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> ```
> 
> Oh, and this is something you can add into the launcher shortcut when in Windows. How you "deploy" the antialiased version so that people just get it automatically, I don't know. I looked to see how you could add additional VM arguments to the web deployment for Ignition, and I couldn't find it. That might have been "fixed".

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**Author:** ![justice5555](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/258eb7/32.png) [@justice5555](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/justice5555)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 3:06am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/antialias-everywhere/7695/5 "2014-01-27T03:06:31Z")

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+1