Any feedback on this item? Best regards, David Gilbert
> On 30 Nov 2017, at 08:26, David Gilbert <d...@jfree.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > I have an open source project FXGraphics2D [1] that provides a Graphics2D API > for the JavaFX canvas. It is open source and used to provide JavaFX support > for JFreeChart [2] and Orson Charts [3]. It can also be used more generally > for any code that targets the Java2D API. > > One limitation that I’ve encountered is that there is no API to get font > metrics for fonts rendered on the JavaFX canvas, so it is difficult to > implement the method Graphics2D.getFontMetrics(Font f) accurately. As a > result, text alignment is difficult, for example see the tick labels on the > vertical axis in this chart: > > http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/fxgraphics2d-font-issue.png > > There is a feature request in the bug tracker, open for some time, that > targets this particular feature. I’d like to highlight it for (hopefully) > some attention in a future JDK release: > > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8090775 > <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8090775> > > Best regards, > > David Gilbert > > [1] https://github.com/jfree/fxgraphics2d > <https://github.com/jfree/fxgraphics2d> > [2] https://github.com/jfree/jfreechart-fx > <https://github.com/jfree/jfreechart-fx> > [3] https://github.com/jfree/orson-charts-fx > <https://github.com/jfree/orson-charts-fx>
