Re: Font rendering issue on macOS - cut off characters

2020-05-24 Thread Phil Race
PS the spacing is very uneven. That does not look right. -Phil. > On May 24, 2020, at 5:16 PM, Phil Race wrote: > > That looks normal. > > -Phil. > >> On May 24, 2020, at 4:27 PM, Rob Nikander wrote: >> >> >> >>> On May 24, 2020, at 5:46 PM, Philip Race wrote: >>> >>> That's likely LCD

Re: Font rendering issue on macOS - cut off characters

2020-05-24 Thread Phil Race
That looks normal. -Phil. > On May 24, 2020, at 4:27 PM, Rob Nikander wrote: > > > >> On May 24, 2020, at 5:46 PM, Philip Race wrote: >> >> That's likely LCD sub-pixel text. Its normal to see it if you squint. Not >> new. > > I’m doubting that this is normal, but let me try to share a

Re: Font rendering issue on macOS - cut off characters

2020-05-24 Thread Rob Nikander
> On May 24, 2020, at 5:46 PM, Philip Race wrote: > > That's likely LCD sub-pixel text. Its normal to see it if you squint. Not new. I’m doubting that this is normal, but let me try to share a few screenshots so we can be sure. (All pasted into one PNG for easy comparison):

Re: Font rendering issue on macOS - cut off characters

2020-05-24 Thread Philip Race
On 5/24/20, 3:25 PM, Rob Nikander wrote: On May 24, 2020, at 4:47 PM, Philip Race wrote: Should I understand 10.15.4 is the only version of macOS you've tried ? Not some earlier version of Catalina for example ? Yes, it’s all I’ve tried. As to the cause ? I can only speculate. Rounding

Re: Font rendering issue on macOS - cut off characters

2020-05-24 Thread Rob Nikander
> On May 24, 2020, at 4:47 PM, Philip Race wrote: > > Should I understand 10.15.4 is the only version of macOS you've tried ? > Not some earlier version of Catalina for example ? Yes, it’s all I’ve tried. > As to the cause ? I can only speculate. Rounding error in the bitmap size ? > Being

Re: Font rendering issue on macOS - cut off characters

2020-05-24 Thread Philip Race
Should I understand 10.15.4 is the only version of macOS you've tried ? Not some earlier version of Catalina for example ? Folks *mostly* use retina so it is possible that if it is somewhat recently introduced it is specific to non-retina. As to the cause ? I can only speculate. Rounding

Font rendering issue on macOS - cut off characters

2020-05-24 Thread Rob Nikander
Hello all, I just started experimenting with JavaFX and I notice a font rendering problem on macOS Catalina 10.15.4, an older (2012) MacBook Pro that does not have a “retina” display. As an example, if I create a `Label` with the default font and the text “aod”, then the “o” character looks