Is it possible to change the font of the text from a listing?

Question

I have a listing of my Java code currently the font is too big and the code runs off the page.

Here is what my listing looks like:

Answer 1

You can change basicstyle and linewidth to achieve what you want. I, for example, use the following within my lstlistings-settings:

basicstyle=\footnotesize\ttfamily,
linewidth=\textwidth

Additionally, I import the courier package to get a nicer font for ttfamilyusing \usepackage{courier}

EDIT: I also use Java code within LaTeX documents quite regularly. This is how my total setup looks like:

\lstset{
    basicstyle=\footnotesize\ttfamily,
    linewidth=\textwidth,
    numbers=left,
    numberstyle=\tiny\emptyaccsupp,
    columns=flexible,
    numbersep=5pt,      % Abstand der Nummern zum Text
    tabsize=3,
    breaklines=true,
    keywordstyle=\color{RoyalBlue}\textbf,
    commentstyle=\color{ForestGreen},
    frame=bottomline,
    stringstyle=\color{WildStrawberry}\ttfamily,
    showspaces=false,
    showtabs=false,
    xleftmargin=17pt,
    framexleftmargin=17pt,
    framexrightmargin=5pt,
    framexbottommargin=4pt,
    showstringspaces=false,
    literate=%
        {Ö}{{\"O}}1
        {Ä}{{\"A}}1
        {Ü}{{\"U}}1
        {ß}{{\ss}}2
        {ü}{{\"u}}1
        {ä}{{\"a}}1
        {ö}{{\"o}}1
 }
 \lstloadlanguages{
         Java
 }