Re: Poor font rendering..

2014-03-12 Thread Felipe Heidrich
On Mar 11, 2014, at 1:57 AM, Robert Fisher wrote: > Suppose I want to see what GDI, SWT-like text looks like in JavaFX. I should > set -Djavafx.text=t2k. But looking at the picture > (http://i.imgur.com/CGyckge.png) it still seems there is some additional > blurring in JavaFX. Some additional

Re: Poor font rendering..

2014-03-11 Thread Robert Fisher
omise between positioning and 'vibrancy' for small text. Cheers, Rob -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: openjfx-dev [mailto:openjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net] Im Auftrag von Felipe Heidrich Gesendet: Montag, 10. März 2014 18:46 An: OpenJFX Mailing List Betreff: Re: Poor font ren

Re: Poor font rendering..

2014-03-10 Thread Felipe Heidrich
Thank you Rob, DirectWrite is the engine JavaFX uses to produces glyph masks (white on black), therefore JavaFX text should resemble that of DirectWrite (it is not exactly the same, as JavaFX does its own color blending and gamma correction). We decided to use DirectWrite for JavaFX because it

Re: Poor font rendering..

2014-03-10 Thread Felipe Heidrich
Thank you Rob, It would be interesting to test against a DirectWrite app. I’m not sure if you have VS, but if you do it should be simple to modify the Simple Text tab in the DirectWrite Hello World Sample to use the same font and text: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd

Re: Poor font rendering..

2014-03-07 Thread Robert Fisher
Hi Felipe, Hi Phil, Thanks for the tips. Phil, your program yielded the following output: Text-specific antialiasing enable key : LCD HRGB antialiasing text mode Text-specific LCD contrast key : 120 I tried all of the 5 settings that Felix mentioned. Here are my results for the default font (S

Re: Poor font rendering..

2014-03-06 Thread Jim Graham
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Re: Poor font rendering..

2014-03-06 Thread Phil Race
<mailto:openjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net <mailto:openjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net>>>] Im Auftrag von Stephen F Northover Gesendet: Mittwoch, 5. März 2014 18:30 An: Pedro Duque Vieira

Re: Poor font rendering..

2014-03-06 Thread Pedro Duque Vieira
I have created an issue on jira: https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-36146 Felipe, I couldn't assign the issue to you but I think someone already did. Guys, could you please add in your comments/suggestions to the issue? I guess that would be nice for the person who is going to fix it or the

Re: Poor font rendering..

2014-03-06 Thread Scott Palmer
have the text fill set to Color.BLACK and the font >> smoothing >> type set to LCD. Is there something else I can >> configure to >> get more vibrant-looking fonts? >> >> Cheers! >>

Re: Poor font rendering..

2014-03-06 Thread Felipe Heidrich
Hi Robert On Mar 6, 2014, at 1:21 AM, Robert Fisher wrote: > Is there something else I can configure to get more vibrant-looking fonts? Take a look at: https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-14187 Try a) -Dprism.subpixeltext=false b) -Dprism.subpixeltext=true c) -Dprism.subpixeltext=nativ

Re: Poor font rendering..

2014-03-06 Thread Phil Race
k.java.net>>] Im Auftrag von Stephen F Northover Gesendet: Mittwoch, 5. März 2014 18:30 An: Pedro Duque Vieira; OpenJFX Mailing List Betreff: Re: Poor font rendering.. Hi Pedro, Font rendering

Re: Poor font rendering..

2014-03-06 Thread Phil Race
dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net <mailto:openjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net> <mailto:openjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net <mailto:openjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net>>] Im Auftrag von Stephen F Northover Gesendet: Mit

Re: Poor font rendering..

2014-03-06 Thread Scott Palmer
The JavaFX text doesn't look as vibrant. In particular the >> smoothing algorithm seems to be making poor colour choices for >> the vertical strokes. At 100% the difference is subtle but >> important. >> >> I have the text fill set to Co

Re: Poor font rendering..

2014-03-06 Thread Phil Race
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: openjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net <mailto:openjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net> [mailto:openjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net <mailto:openjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net>] Im Auftrag von Stephen F Northover

Re: Poor font rendering..

2014-03-06 Thread Phil Race
t to LCD. Is there something else I can configure to get more vibrant-looking fonts? Cheers! Rob -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: openjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net [mailto:openjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net] Im Auftrag von Stephen F Northover Gesendet: Mittwoch, 5. März 2014 18

Re: Poor font rendering..

2014-03-06 Thread Scott Palmer
ubtle but important. >> >> I have the text fill set to Color.BLACK and the font smoothing type set >> to LCD. Is there something else I can configure to get more vibrant-looking >> fonts? >> >> Cheers! >> Rob >> >> >> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht---

Re: Poor font rendering..

2014-03-06 Thread Felipe Heidrich
Thank you Pedro, Please report all the information to the bug system (file a new report if needed). Assign it to me. Regards Felipe On Mar 5, 2014, at 5:39 PM, Pedro Duque Vieira wrote: > 1. It doesn't appear to be related with that issue but than again, it might.. > > 3. Thank you very mu

Re: Poor font rendering..

2014-03-06 Thread Scott Palmer
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: openjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net [mailto: > openjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net] Im Auftrag von Stephen F Northover > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 5. März 2014 18:30 > An: Pedro Duque Vieira; OpenJFX Mailing List > Betreff: Re: Poor font rendering.. >

Re: Poor font rendering..

2014-03-06 Thread Robert Fisher
achricht- Von: openjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net [mailto:openjfx-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net] Im Auftrag von Stephen F Northover Gesendet: Mittwoch, 5. März 2014 18:30 An: Pedro Duque Vieira; OpenJFX Mailing List Betreff: Re: Poor font rendering.. Hi Pedro, Font rendering in FX8 is using

Re: Poor font rendering..

2014-03-05 Thread Pedro Duque Vieira
1. It doesn't appear to be related with that issue but than again, it might.. 3. Thank you very much! I'll try out those settings to see how it looks. I'm not very familinar with the internals of how windows renders fonts but IMHO I would think that such poor results should be possible to avoid ev

Re: Poor font rendering..

2014-03-05 Thread Felipe Heidrich
1. Maybe https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-35402 2. Sure. The above bug is in my TODO list as a matter of fact, 3. Things to try: a) Text#setFontSmoothingType(LCD) ? b) -Dprism.text=t2k (in the command line) c) if the font size is bigger than 80 JavaFX renders text using paths, try font

Re: Poor font rendering..

2014-03-05 Thread Stephen F Northover
Hi Pedro, Font rendering in FX8 is using the native rasterizer so the glyphs should be identical to what the operating system is rendering. That said, we may have a bug. Please enter a JIRA with sample code and a screen shot of the bad rendering. That will give us something concrete to work