Poor quality font rendering

[Scott Palmer]

From what I have observed, Text and Label appear to have different defaults for when antialiasing is applied.  Text will do it always, Label only when the font is greater than a certain size.

Scott

On 2013-08-28, at 5:26 AM, "John C. Turnbull" <ozemale at ozemail.com.au> wrote:

> Hi Felipe,
> 
> Thanks for the info.
> 
> Is kerning planned for a Java 8 update or will it have to wait for 9?  Or
> 10?
> 
> One more thing I have just noticed is that the way the text is rendered in a
> Text object with LCD font smoothing is quite different from a Label (with
> the Text object looking better and closer to native text).
> 
> While I concede that the "better" font rendering I thought I observed in
> WebView is probably an illusion, there is definitely a difference between
> Text and Label (at least on this machine).
> 
> Why would that be?  Are they rendered differently?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -jct