Michele,
I have not tested your showcase but I think I know what you mean.
Probably the only way to achieve what you want is to implement your own
outline rendering by draw the string five times. Four times using the
foreground color with x, y offsets (1, -1), (1, 1), (-1, 1), (-1, -1),
and finally once without offset using the background color (or white if
there is no background color). This will not look perfect and the glyphs
will not really be hollow as you would expect from and outlined glyph,
but maybe while TextLayout has no support for an Outline attribute this
will do the job.
Cheers
Jan
Michele Puccini schrieb:
Thanks Phil,
I did a little mistake: is not a problem of the outline, which is indeed
correct.
Well, a piece of code is worth a thousand words.
The attached sample shows the "animated" difference between
TextLayout.draw() and g2d.draw(TextLayout.getOutline). Please give it
a try
and see what happens. Is is quite funny to see the glyphs in the first
line
jumping one pixel to the other just like the space invaders in that old
arcade game ;)
As you will see from the animation, the glyphs rendered with
TextLayout.draw() jump from one pixel to the other (at int coords ?),
while
the glyph outlines are rendered with the expected quality.
Funny enough, the red cursor on the "C" letter is rendered "at float
coords".
So, in my opinion, TextLayout.draw() does not give the expected quality
resuls and this is a pity as it really is very useful.
Cheers,
Mik
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Race" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 1:08 AM
Subject: Re: [JAVA2D] AttributedString and Outline
The bitmap glyph images are hinted and gridfitted.
This is not done for the returned outline as it
doesn't make sense to do that for a pure shape.
For most of what you are doing you need outlines
anyway as the rasteriser can only return glyph
images.
-phil.
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