Re: [OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Possible solution for font-rendering issues in Windows

2019-04-28 Thread Peter Harvey
On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 1:05 PM Phil Race wrote: > One thing to add is that Swing on Windows will use LCD text in all cases I > can think of and that is rendered by Windows/GDI not free type. > Line and glyph spacing may still be affected (come from freetype) but not > the glyph image itself. >

Re: [OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Possible solution for font-rendering issues in Windows

2019-04-28 Thread Philip Race
On 4/28/19, 8:25 AM, Peter Harvey wrote: Apologies if this is not the correct channel for this email. It is, but if you want to send any more emails to this list, you will need to subscribe. From what I can tell, Freetype 2.7 contained a change in hint processing that led to poorer

[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Possible solution for font-rendering issues in Windows

2019-04-28 Thread Peter Harvey
Apologies if this is not the correct channel for this email. >From what I can tell, Freetype 2.7 contained a change in hint processing that led to poorer quality font rendering on Windows. Any OpenJDK distribution using Freetype 2.7 or higher (ie. most distributions) will have poorer quality font