phpDesigner 8 font rendering bug

Question

phpDesigner 8 seems to have an error rendering text. I'm comparing it to Sublime Text 2.

Using these values:

in both programs, I get these different results:

Seems like phpDesigner 8 is expanding the font, but I can't find any configuration which allows me to stop that behavior.

How can I remove the horizontal font extra space?

Answer 1

Not sure if you had this problem resolved. You can change this in Tools > Preferences > Editor > Syntax Highlighters, choose PHP from the drop down list and for each attribute, uncheck the Bold checkbox.