On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Artur Rataj <arturra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, I discussed the problem on dev-build > > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2016-December/018353.html > > but have been redirected here, thanks Eric! > > I would like to ask why OpenJDK on Linux has by default an inferior font > rendering quality, when there are OpenJDK variants also for Linux which can > render the same fonts with a very high quality. > > I described the problem in more detail and with images here: > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41149451/a-method-of-getting-a-linux-jdk-tarball-with-freetype-like-font-rendering >
You don't compare two versions of OpenJDK in your article on stack overflow. You compare a version of OpenJDK with a version of Oracle JDK: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_76-release-b03) vs. Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_122-ea-b04) As Phil already mentioned, Oracle JKD comes with a different, built-in font renderer (called t2k) which is not part of OpenJDK. There exist no official "OpenJDK early access" builds. You probably refer to the builds from https://jdk8.java.net/download.html but theses are actually Oracle JDK builds which contain the t2k font renderer. So you compare t2k vs freetype! Regards, Volker > Best regards, > Artur >
