This is great news!! I know that using a recent version of Freetype,
with hinting turned on, makes a huge difference in the quality of
displayed Fonts in Swing apps for OpenJDK on Windows builds. On
Linux, I'm not sure why, but the font display seems good to me
independant of this.
This is alre
Well .. that is the very newest freetype but the doc is correct in that
its referring to 2.3
However if you are on Linux then jdk will use the system freetype and some
distros are disabling the hinting for technical reasons.
I think the reason is that a lot of free fonts are not hinted so turni
On 6 August 2010 10:02, Raffaello Giulietti
wrote:
> Contrary to what is stated here
>
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/build/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html#freetype
>
> byte code hinting is now enable by default since 2.4.0
>
> http://freetype.sourceforge.net/index2.html#release-freetype-2.4.0
Contrary to what is stated here
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/build/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html#freetype
byte code hinting is now enable by default since 2.4.0
http://freetype.sourceforge.net/index2.html#release-freetype-2.4.0
