[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Font rendering quality in Linux

[Volker Simonis]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Artur Rataj <arturrataj at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, I discussed the problem on dev-build
>
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2016-December/018353.html
>
> but have been redirected here, thanks Eric!
>
> I would like to ask why OpenJDK on Linux has by default an inferior font
> rendering quality, when there are OpenJDK variants also for Linux which can
> render the same fonts with a very high quality.
>
> I described the problem in more detail and with images here:
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41149451/a-method-of-getting-a-linux-jdk-tarball-with-freetype-like-font-rendering
>

You don't compare two versions of OpenJDK in your article on stack
overflow. You compare a version of OpenJDK with a version of Oracle
JDK:

OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_76-release-b03)
vs.
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_122-ea-b04)

As Phil already mentioned, Oracle JKD comes with a different, built-in
font renderer (called t2k) which is not part of OpenJDK.

There exist no official "OpenJDK early access" builds. You probably
refer to the builds from https://jdk8.java.net/download.html but
theses are actually Oracle JDK builds which contain the t2k font
renderer. So you compare t2k vs freetype!

Regards,
Volker

> Best regards,
> Artur
>