title: Fonts in Netbeans smaller than desired
body: <p>My Netbeans 7.4 claims, it uses <code>Courier New 18pt</code> font:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/IXpL0.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>However, when I set my Notepad++ (and <em>any</em> other piece of software on my Windows 7) to <strong>the very same typefaces and font size</strong>:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/kgbNy.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Font clearly looks much bigger.</p>
  
  <p>Can someone enlighten me, what am I missing? How can two programs claim that they use the very same font for text display and display that text it two different heights?</p>