Hello all,
I've recently started a project in JavaFX and had some trouble with
inconsistent widths of spaces between characters in Linux. I haven't
been able to find much useful information and therefore posted a
stackoverflow question with a screenshot illustrating the problem and
some
The Linux image shows greyscale text.
The Mac image shows subpixel LCD text.
The latter can be positioned with sub-pixel (1/3 pixel) resolution.
Why does this make a difference ?
JavaFX like CoreText + DirectWrite, and unlike GDI + Swing uses
unhinted glyphs
with floating point accumulation of
Thanks Phil, I think you've put me on the right track. I'm using
Manjaro, which is a very close derivative of Archlinux. Looking at
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/font_configuration#Subpixel_rendering
it seems this really could be the underlying problem. Subpixel
rendering is disabled by
Ok, it went faster than expected. I can confirm that missing subpixel
rendering was the issue.
Archlinux has some alternative freetype packages which provide
Cleartype rendering. I found one that works on my machine and now the
text is rendered correctly.
Thanks a lot. I've searched for a so
Hi Kevin,
Please review the following:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8199008
Fixed infinite loop on OS X and Linux in massaging loop which caused
100% CPU utilization.
Thanks,
Alexander
