Artur, we’re going to submit our changes to OpenJDK after some refactoring. Actually, OpenJDK has some usages of FontConfig api and we’d like to merge them with ours.
Best Regards, Alexey > On 16 Dec 2016, at 20:09, Artur Rataj <arturra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Alexey, Android Studio in fact says "OpenJDK 64-bit server VM by JetBrains > s.r.o." > > On JetBrains pages: > > Our custom JRE is based on OpenJDK and includes the most up to date fixes to > provide better user experience on Linux (like font rendering improvements and > HiDPI support). > > > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Alexey Ushakov > <alexey.usha...@jetbrains.com <mailto:alexey.usha...@jetbrains.com>> wrote: > 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 >> <mailto: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. >> > >
