Juergen Kreileder wrote:
>
> >>>>> Nathan Meyers writes:
>
> Nathan> Paolo Ciccone wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 11:22:03PM +0100, Juergen Kreileder wrote:
> >> > No big surprise, they've commented out the relevant entries in the
> >> > font.properties file. I'll do the same for the next Blackdown release
> >> > as people think that it is a bug, but it isn't.
> >> >
> >> > Try to display dingbats characters (0x2701 - 0x27be) on an AWT
> >> > component with the Inprise JDK, you'll get no warnings but the
> >> > component only will show question marks: '????'. The warnings from
> >> > the Blackdown JDK just tell you immediately that something might not
> >> > work correctly.
> >>
> >> Does anybody know if installing the URW fonts fixes the problem
> >> ? If yes, than it could be a requirement for the JDk and it
> >> just could be mentioned in the README.
>
> Nathan> Yes, if the font.properties file is changed accordingly
> Nathan> and the fonts are made available in one of two possible
> Nathan> ways:
>
> Nathan> 1) Added to the X server's font path.
>
> Nathan> 2) Added to the AWT's font path with the JAVA_FONTS environment
> Nathan> variable.
>
> Nathan> The advantage of the latter approach is that font
> Nathan> rendering is performed by the AWT instead of X, and the
>
> RC3 should do that in case 1 too.
Partially. The AWT does the best job it can with fonts rasterized by the
X server, but it is stuck doing that job with bitonal bitmaps. When it
can get to the scalable font files directly (case 2), it can do a much
better job. Some Graphics2D capabilities, such as anti-aliased font
rendering, are not available in case 1.
I don't see anything different in RC3 w.r.t. those behaviors, but I've
only tried a few tests. Has something about font rendering changed?
Nathan
>
> Nathan> Graphics2D manipulations work. If you use JAVA_FONTS, you
> Nathan> need to specify a path containing all directories from
> Nathan> with the AWT gets scalable fonts, including the directory
> Nathan> containing the default fonts shipped with the JDK.
>
> Juergen
>
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> Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Team
> http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html
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