Re: JavaFX graphics performance and suitability for advanced animations

[Richard Bair]

>> The text in PowerPoint is very likely outlines (treat the text as shapes) 
>> since there isn't much text per slide and its usually very large (in fact 
>> most render engines stop rendering text as glyphs at a given size -- for us 
>> it is > 80pt.). Hmmmm. I wonder if you used an 81pt font and scaled it down 
>> what that would look like?
> 
> Well, I tried it, and it wasn't pretty: 
> https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-30862

This, however, is beautiful. How does it look on your system.

        final StackPane rootPane = new StackPane();

        Text text = new Text("This is a text node");
        text.setFont(Font.font(Font.getDefault().getFamily(), 81));
        ScaleTransition scale = new ScaleTransition(Duration.seconds(5), text);
        scale.setCycleCount(Animation.INDEFINITE);
        scale.setAutoReverse(true);
        scale.setFromX(1);
        scale.setFromY(1);
        scale.setToX(10);
        scale.setToY(10);
        scale.play();
        rootPane.getChildren().add(text);

        Scene scene = new Scene(rootPane, 1200, 800);
        stage.setScene(scene);
        stage.show();