I see that this release of font code includes "native font rendering".
What is this actually referring to? Does JavaFX 2 and 8 prior to the b94 (or whichever build has this native font rendering) not do native font rendering? Can someone explain exactly what "native font rendering" actually means and whether it is something new? Also, why is not available on Linux? Thanks, -jct ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Zwolenski" To:"Felipe Heidrich" Cc:"[email protected] Mailing" Sent:Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:21:22 +1000 Subject:Re: javafx-font opensourced This time sending to the list (gets me every time!): Great news! Danno - where does this put us with the JFX78 backport? Can we get a build of this for iOS now or what's needed to close this loop? The RoboVM Maven plugin is working. I'd be keen to make it work with JFX auto included so basically you can create a normal project and run mvn robovm:ipad-simulator (robovm:ios-device is under construction) and next thing you have a running JFX app on iOS, no mess, no fuss. I have a pitch for a suite of fairly major app development next week. So many unknowns with JFX and app development at this stage! I'm still pretty disappointed that JFX on iOS/Android is not officially supported by Oracle (such a massive wtf? for me) - makes it such a risky prospect for us on the front line. On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:47 AM, Felipe Heidrich wrote: > Hello, > > > We have just open-sourced javafx-font and javafx-font-native! > > Note that a lot of the code we open-sourced today is a new implementation > based on native text technologies (CoreText for the Mac and DirectWrite for > Windows). > > We still have a lot of work to do: > - finishing the new linux implementation is a big one > - testing > - improve on sub pixel position text > - etc > > Help is most welcome, > > Thank you > Felipe > >
