I managed to get font rendering under a Centos 5 server (with minimal gui-less installation as per company instructions) by installing xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 through yum. This allowed font rendering to work. The font used though was different from the Sun JDK. I though I might fix that by installing the package for Sun java fonts. This actually make the rendering worse with text that was supposed to be vertical drawing at a slight diagonal.
It looks like font rendering is still kind of problematic on OpenJDK and Oracle lots of other stuff to do such that it may not be addressed any time soon. At the end of the day the system work with and has been distributed with the Sun/Oracle implementation of Java. I just thought it might be worth migrating if it was robust enough these days. This might be a little off topic but I am not exactly clear about what the future plans are for the OpenJDK relative to the Oracle JDK. The documentation says that the Oracle JDK will be based on OpenJDK. Is there an intention to eventually no longer need any kind of proprietary JDK at all and standardise on the OpenJDK? Carl On 17 November 2011 14:07, Simon Ochsenreither < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Carl, > > could possibly be a problem with the font renderer. OpenJDK switched to > FreeType, while OracleJDK afaik still uses a proprietary one. > I'm not sure if Lucida still ships as a font with the proprietary Java ... > probably grab the font from OracleJDK if it still exists and try running > program with that font and OpenJDK. > > Other possibility could be XRender. Did you try running with/without > XRender? > > Good luck, let me know if something helped! > > Thanks, > > > Simon > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/cb9a2iEqyT0J. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
