Clay Leeds wrote:
J.Pietschmann wrote:
Matthias Sch�fer wrote:
I guess you had problems with this in the past.
I never used any IBM JVM with AWT stuff, others reported this
last year, look into the mailing list archives. The solutions
were "upgrade" or "switch to Sun JVM" (unless on AIX, where
the IBM JVM is the only viable choice).
Upgrade to ??? Is there a IBM-JVM other than 1.3.0 or 1.3.1 without that
problems ?
If you switch to Sun's JVM: some 1.3.0 releases and basically
all 1.4.0 beta releases are said to have a variety of problems
with AWT text rendering, the latter most notable with
character width calculations. Use 1.3.1 or 1.4.1/1.4.2.
For details, consult Sun's BugParade.
In my experience, Sun JVM 1.4.0_06 and later correctly output
font-kerning using -awt (and -print, since it uses AWT). On the "IBM"
side, IBM JVM 1.3.x worked OK on AIX. In fact, we've been telling our
clients to use Sun Java 1.4.0_06+, or IBM Java 1.3+.
However, since you're having problems, with IBM Java 1.3.x, I may have
to revisit that advice. Out of curiosity, are all fonts affected or is
it just one or two, and if so, which font(s) have you tested?
The problems occur, when I choose no font (wich seems to be Helvetica)
and with Helvetica. Using Courier or Times in the table-rows is ok, but
produces problems on my table-header. So I tested to use Helvetica on
table-header and Times on the rows. In this combination I see no
problems. Of course it is not ideal to mix fonts. Is there any other
font shipped with fop I can use, or is "importing" a font a solution ?
FWIW, I've used Sun 1.4.1_01-b01 successfully on Win32, and as mentioned
java130 on AIX. Our Linux box is using 1.4.0_02. All of these
installations output "Courier" and "Times" acceptably.
I have yet to run any tests with Sun 1.4.2...
Hope someone finds at least a portion of this informative...
Web Maestro Clay
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