I have been in conversation with P. Race at Sun about some of the prining issues with Java for some time. In a recent letter, he said that font.deriveFont() (in 1.4 beta2) will not render the fonts as printer fonts, causes large spool file sizes. Instead he said to scale the whole graphics object to get the fonts to work correctly. I have posted items here regarding this issue before and know that there is some attention given to this issue, but don't know how much. Has anyone tried printing from Batik with simple, yet non-standard font sizes? What we are specifically trying to do is specify the pitch of a font. We can do this by scaling, spacing, or whatever, just so long as we can force a font to a certain pitch. Is there a way to get around the print issues? If not, is this an important part of Batik? It is uncertain whether or not Sun will decide this is a big enough issue to fix for 1.4 FCS or not. --------------------- Mark Claassen Donnell Systems, Inc. 300 S. St. Louis Blvd. Ste. 203 South Bend, IN 46617 E-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (219)232-3784 Fax: (219)232-4014 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
