Poor font rendering..

[Scott Palmer]

This looks to me like a sub-pixel horizontal alignment issue.  Perhaps it
is just a difference in kerning or something along those lines?

Scott


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:21 AM, Robert Fisher <rfisher at tesis.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I think there is still room for improvement in terms of the 'contrast' or
> 'vibrancy' of fonts in JavaFX. Take a look at this example:
>
> http://i.imgur.com/6qSamTO.png
>
> I'm running Windows 7. What you are seeing is a screenshot of the default
> font, zoomed in 600%. The top text is JavaFX 8 (latest build as of 3 days
> ago). The bottom text is Outlook but could just as easily have been
> Firefox, Chrome, Word, or Eclipse SWT - they're all indistinguishable to me.
>
> The JavaFX text doesn't look as vibrant. In particular the smoothing
> algorithm seems to be making poor colour choices for the vertical strokes.
> At 100% the difference is subtle but important.
>
> I have the text fill set to Color.BLACK and the font smoothing type set to
> LCD. Is there something else I can configure to get more vibrant-looking
> fonts?
>
> Cheers!
> Rob
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: openjfx-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net [mailto:
> openjfx-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net] Im Auftrag von Stephen F Northover
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 5. März 2014 18:30
> An: Pedro Duque Vieira; OpenJFX Mailing List
> Betreff: Re: Poor font rendering..
>
> Hi Pedro,
>
> Font rendering in FX8 is using the native rasterizer so the glyphs should
> be identical to what the operating system is rendering.  That said, we may
> have a bug. Please enter a JIRA with sample code and a screen shot of the
> bad rendering.  That will give us something concrete to work with.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
> On 2014-03-05 12:10 PM, Pedro Duque Vieira wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > As evidenced by the screenshots in http://pixelduke.wordpress.com/
> > blog posts about JMetro, javafx as noticeably poor font rendering
> > visuals. The most recent screenshots were taken on a windows 8.1
> > machine and the older ones on windows 7, using Segoe UI (windows 7 & 8
> system font).
> >
> > 1- As this been reported?
> >
> > 2- Is the javafx team working on it?
> >
> > 3- Is there something the developer can do to increase font rendering
> > quality?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Best regards,
> >
> >
>
>
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