Re: Text rendering on Windows

2014-08-18 Thread Felipe Heidrich
Hi John, 1) There are many different ways to configure DirectWrite, but without more details I can not tell what that is for your case. Maybe the first thing to try is to go to DWGlyph#createAnalysis() and changed the rendering mode from DWRITE_RENDERING_MODE_NATURAL to

Re: Text rendering on Windows

2014-08-18 Thread John C. Turnbull
Hi Felipe, Thanks for your prompt and informative response. I won't be able to get access to a Windows machine for another week or so but when I do I will gladly send you some screenshots. However, are you saying that this is the first time anyone has reported such a finding? There's no

Re: Text rendering on Windows

2014-08-18 Thread Richard Bair
I won't be able to get access to a Windows machine for another week or so but when I do I will gladly send you some screenshots. However, are you saying that this is the first time anyone has reported such a finding? There's no existing JIRA for this specific issue? I ask because even

Re: Text rendering on Windows

2014-08-18 Thread Kevin Rushforth
As for LCD on Canvas, I am very pleased that it is being addressed and even though I want it right now, JFX 9 fits fairly well with my timeline. Hopefully there will be preview releases to test in the not too distant future... Btw, as I mentioned in another thread we are looking to pull

Re: Text rendering on Windows

2014-08-18 Thread John C. Turnbull
Richard, I totally agree on the subjective nature of font appreciation but that's not really what I am highlighting here. What I am seeing is a difference between the quality of font rendering between JFX and native apps on the same machine with the same font etc. and the JFX rendering is

Re: Text rendering on Windows

2014-08-18 Thread John C. Turnbull
That's great to hear Kevin! On 18 Aug 2014, at 10:39 pm, Kevin Rushforth kevin.rushfo...@oracle.com wrote: As for LCD on Canvas, I am very pleased that it is being addressed and even though I want it right now, JFX 9 fits fairly well with my timeline. Hopefully there will be preview

Re: Text rendering on Windows

2014-08-18 Thread Kevin Rushforth
Can you file a JIRA and send screen-shots to Felipe? -- Kevin John C. Turnbull wrote: Richard, I totally agree on the subjective nature of font appreciation but that's not really what I am highlighting here. What I am seeing is a difference between the quality of font rendering between JFX