Re: Font rendering hints - RT-36146 - progress?

2015-06-15 Thread Kevin Rushforth
It is one of many RFEs that we might consider for JDK 9, but have not committed to. I don't think Phil has looked into it recently, but perhaps he can provide an update on it. -- Kevin Felix Bembrick wrote: ​Has anyone had a look at this, done some work on it or can provide some details as

Re: Font rendering hints - RT-36146 - progress?

2015-06-15 Thread Phil Race
If you can figure out some apps for which there is source and provide those tweaks that might help understand the differences but I am not sure it will be as straightforward as you hope. -phil.. On 6/15/15 1:52 PM, Felix Bembrick wrote: The thing is that the way DirectWrite is utilised now

Re: Font rendering hints - RT-36146 - progress?

2015-06-15 Thread Phil Race
I would have to look at it starting more or less from scratch and I do not know that it would be as simple as providing a way to tweak DirectWrite rendering. The differences seem to be quite small differences in sub-pixel intensity and sub-pixel accumulation of the total advance. I do not know

Re: Font rendering hints - RT-36146 - progress?

2015-06-15 Thread Felix Bembrick
The thing is that the way DirectWrite is utilised now by JavaFX either through which hints are applied by default or by some other way, the result is text which does not render exactly the same way as (almost) every native Windows application that also utilises DirectWrite. Wouldn't a simpler

Re: Font rendering hints - RT-36146 - progress?

2015-06-14 Thread Felix Bembrick
​Has anyone had a look at this, done some work on it or can provide some details as to its progress? Thanks, Felix​ On 11 June 2015 at 13:50, Felix Bembrick felix.bembr...@gmail.com wrote: I am following this one closely and hoping that some progress has been made and that a fix is planned