Hi Artur, > So if it looks bad with that, it will look bad on your desktop unless the > font is interpreted differently. > > Not true. The particular font, like a lot of the other (if you wish, I may > send you example images), is badly rendered only in Java. Other Freetype apps > render these fonts very well, thanks to the exceptional quality of that > library. > > If I run Netbeans with its standard fonts and --jdk-home of the Android > Studio jdk, the GUI quality is immediately improved, thanks to the fonts > rendered as expected from a properly supported Freetype.
Actually we (at JetBrains) have made some changes to use fontconfig hints in freetype rendering. Best Regards, Alexey > On 16 Dec 2016, at 03:32, Artur Rataj <arturra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 12:54 AM, Phil Race <philip.r...@oracle.com > <mailto:philip.r...@oracle.com>> wrote: > > As I started to say on that list, it seems to me that this may be a > font-specific problem. > Fonts have hints. I've seen similar issues when the hints are poor. > > Unfortunately there is no easy way to know if they are poor. > Some clients/apps/rendering systems by policy ignore hints so they may look > OK, > but then they may not look as good on a case where the hints were good and > important. > If I knew exactly what font you were using I could look at it. > > The problem is more or less visible in a number of fonts, including the > standard ones used by Java in dialogs, and several very high quality fonts > supplied with Ubuntu. Of course, the actual differences vary with fonts. > > Also, the poor quality of font rendering of Java/Linux is known. This why > there are the patches, the alternative "fixed" versions of OpenJDK etc. > > > Oracle's builds use a one that ships with the JDK binaries (not source) > All openjdk builds use freetype. On Linux this means Ubuntu's openjdk will > use the exact same copy of freetype as used for rendering the rest of your > desktop! > > Thanks, so I was wrong. Then, it might be a misconfigured freetype, a buggy > interface to freetype or whatever. > > So if it looks bad with that, it will look bad on your desktop unless the > font is interpreted differently. > > Not true. The particular font, like a lot of the other (if you wish, I may > send you example images), is badly rendered only in Java. Other Freetype apps > render these fonts very well, thanks to the exceptional quality of that > library. > > If I run Netbeans with its standard fonts and --jdk-home of the Android > Studio jdk, the GUI quality is immediately improved, thanks to the fonts > rendered as expected from a properly supported Freetype. >
