Re: Working on - JDK-8090423 - [Font] Support Font Weights other than Bold and Regular, like Light

2020-04-22 Thread Philip Race
I was mulling over why if it is so easy we didn't do it and I suspect (haven't checked, and so long ago I can't remember off hand) that this code needed to run on top of the old Java 2D pipeline (wrongly called the Swing pipeline). And 2D did not and does not provide this functionality either.

Re: Working on - JDK-8090423 - [Font] Support Font Weights other than Bold and Regular, like Light

2020-04-22 Thread Philip Race
Sadly no one is working on it. It probably is not that hard to do, the weight should be in the OS/2 table -phil On 4/22/20, 3:26 PM, Tom Schindl wrote: Hi Kevin / Phil, I'd like to start working on JDK-8090423 but before I start investing time I wanted to make sure nobody is working on that

Working on - JDK-8090423 - [Font] Support Font Weights other than Bold and Regular, like Light

2020-04-22 Thread Tom Schindl
Hi Kevin / Phil, I'd like to start working on JDK-8090423 but before I start investing time I wanted to make sure nobody is working on that and if you have any input, ideas already how to address that problem help me not wasting time. Tom