Re: [OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Change in appearance of text in Java 11 with fractional metrics and text antialiasing hints on

2019-11-04 Thread Tredinnick, Jacob
Thanks Phil, I did wonder whether or not this was going to be positioned as a bug, particularly given the use of hints. >From our perspective, we'd like to explore the possibility of getting a fix >into a future Java 11 version. A new hint would be fine & we would not require it to work with

Re: [OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Change in appearance of text in Java 11 with fractional metrics and text antialiasing hints on

2019-11-02 Thread Philip Race
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8214481 As you can see from reading there, this isn't really a bug, just a change in behaviour, and it is not clear if we want to restore the 8u behaviour. I think I'd prefer another hint to be created although apps would need to update to it and run

[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Change in appearance of text in Java 11 with fractional metrics and text antialiasing hints on

2019-11-02 Thread Tredinnick, Jacob
Hello all, We have seen changes in the appearance of text drawn by java.awt.Graphics2D when *both* fractional metrics and text antialiasing hints are enabled, between OracleJDK 1.8.0_202 and OpenJDK 11.0.1. The differences affects text in many fonts and multiple sizes. In the example given here