This note’s for you

Another day, another non-existent problem solved Seriously, the font problems I’ve seen yesterday have been kindof bad luck. Wrong font has been chosen by the pipeline, one that doesn’t render smooth as bold font. Plus some small problems in OpenJDK and/or FreeType regarding rendering this font, etc. Today I tried the Font2DTest program of OpenJDK and most fonts look just fine:

This is Bitstream Vera plain without anti-aliasing. Pretty smooth. The font we’ve seen yesterday has been FreeSans bold:

Which also looks slightly crappy with OpenJDK’s default pipeline:

BTW, it’s really amazing how well Swing applications already work. There are only very few glitches (no mouse drag yet for example) and performance seems reasonable (not quite on par with the OpenJDK X11, but still). And all this with minimal effort on my side, I really only implemented a handful of primitives and a little infrastructure. Yay OpenJDK Java2D architecture!

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