Re: [JAVA2D] Alpha blending performance

Thanks for your prompt response. Please allow me to reply to a few specific points: Hello, just curious, why would you want to draw translucent images directly to the screen? Drawing translucent images to an opaque window sounds strange to me. Wouldn't you get artifacts with partial

Re: [JAVA2D] How do I turn on kerning?

Its been a couple of weeks but yesterday finally looked into this. The problem is indeed specific to the version of the font on Vista and so affects 32 and 64 bit. When Microsoft added support for Arabic (etc) to the Times New Roman font (and others) they added an OpenType 'GPOS' table which is

Re: [JAVA2D] How do I turn on kerning?

And my previous statement that it works on Vista 32-bit was incorrect.. Thanks, Dmitri Phil Race wrote: Its been a couple of weeks but yesterday finally looked into this. The problem is indeed specific to the version of the font on Vista and so affects 32 and 64 bit. When Microsoft