This looks to me like a sub-pixel horizontal alignment issue. Perhaps it is just a difference in kerning or something along those lines?
Scott On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:21 AM, Robert Fisher <rfis...@tesis.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > I think there is still room for improvement in terms of the 'contrast' or > 'vibrancy' of fonts in JavaFX. Take a look at this example: > > http://i.imgur.com/6qSamTO.png > > I'm running Windows 7. What you are seeing is a screenshot of the default > font, zoomed in 600%. The top text is JavaFX 8 (latest build as of 3 days > ago). The bottom text is Outlook but could just as easily have been > Firefox, Chrome, Word, or Eclipse SWT - they're all indistinguishable to me. > > The JavaFX text doesn't look as vibrant. In particular the smoothing > algorithm seems to be making poor colour choices for the vertical strokes. > At 100% the difference is subtle but important. > > I have the text fill set to Color.BLACK and the font smoothing type set to > LCD. Is there something else I can configure to get more vibrant-looking > fonts? > > Cheers! > Rob > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: openjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net [mailto: > openjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net] Im Auftrag von Stephen F Northover > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 5. März 2014 18:30 > An: Pedro Duque Vieira; OpenJFX Mailing List > Betreff: Re: Poor font rendering.. > > Hi Pedro, > > Font rendering in FX8 is using the native rasterizer so the glyphs should > be identical to what the operating system is rendering. That said, we may > have a bug. Please enter a JIRA with sample code and a screen shot of the > bad rendering. That will give us something concrete to work with. > > Thanks, > Steve > > On 2014-03-05 12:10 PM, Pedro Duque Vieira wrote: > > Hi, > > > > As evidenced by the screenshots in http://pixelduke.wordpress.com/ > > blog posts about JMetro, javafx as noticeably poor font rendering > > visuals. The most recent screenshots were taken on a windows 8.1 > > machine and the older ones on windows 7, using Segoe UI (windows 7 & 8 > system font). > > > > 1- As this been reported? > > > > 2- Is the javafx team working on it? > > > > 3- Is there something the developer can do to increase font rendering > > quality? > > > > Thanks! > > Best regards, > > > > > > >
