Disable font-smoothing system wide

I want to disable font-smoothing (anti aliase) system wide for mavericks operating system. I already turned off font smoothing for LCD from system preferences (in general).
But it still shows blurry for small fonts in my editor (Zend studio for Eclipse). And it make totally impossible to read small codes.
Any help would be great.

It's definetely the issue. This worked for me: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=382972

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