javafx-font opensourced

[ozemale at ozemail.com.au]

I see that this release of font code includes "native font rendering".

What is this actually referring to?  Does JavaFX 2 and 8 prior to the
b94 (or whichever build has this native font rendering) not do native
font rendering?

Can someone explain exactly what "native font rendering" actually
means and whether it is something new?

Also, why is not available on Linux?

Thanks,

-jct

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Zwolenski" 
To:"Felipe Heidrich" 
Cc:"openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net Mailing" 
Sent:Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:21:22 +1000
Subject:Re: javafx-font opensourced

 This time sending to the list (gets me every time!):

 Great news!

 Danno - where does this put us with the JFX78 backport? Can we get a
build
 of this for iOS now or what's needed to close this loop?

 The RoboVM Maven plugin is working. I'd be keen to make it work with
JFX
 auto included so basically you can create a normal project and run
mvn
 robovm:ipad-simulator (robovm:ios-device is under construction) and
next
 thing you have a running JFX app on iOS, no mess, no fuss.

 I have a pitch for a suite of fairly major app development next week.
So
 many unknowns with JFX and app development at this stage! I'm still
pretty
 disappointed that JFX on iOS/Android is not officially supported by
Oracle
 (such a massive wtf? for me) - makes it such a risky prospect for us
on the
 front line.

 On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:47 AM, Felipe Heidrich  wrote:

 > Hello,
 >
 >
 > We have just open-sourced javafx-font and javafx-font-native!
 >
 > Note that a lot of the code we open-sourced today is a new
implementation
 > based on native text technologies (CoreText for the Mac and
DirectWrite for
 > Windows).
 >
 > We still have a lot of work to do:
 > - finishing the new linux implementation is a big one
 > - testing
 > - improve on sub pixel position text
 > - etc
 >
 > Help is most welcome,
 >
 > Thank you
 > Felipe
 >
 >