Poor font rendering..

[Phil Race]

Perhaps the gamma adjustment is different ?
FX should pick this up from the
SystemParameterInfo SPI_GETFONTSMOOTHINGCONTRAST setting.

I don't know what Outlook (*) uses if its a WPF app then maybe its picking
up an over-ridden setting for this from the registry :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa970267%28v=vs.110%29.aspx#gamma_level
You should be able to check that out fairly easily,and you can use this
JDK app to see what the SystemParameterInfo setting is.

import java.awt.*;
import java.util.*;
public class GetGamma {
   public static void main(String args[]) {
      Toolkit tk = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
      Map map = (Map)tk.getDesktopProperty("awt.font.desktophints");
      if (map != null) {
       for (Object k : map.keySet()) {
             System.out.println(k + " : "  + map.get(k));
      }
    }
  }
}

C:\>c:\jdk1.8\bin\java GetGamma
Text-specific antialiasing enable key : LCD HRGB antialiasing text mode
Text-specific LCD contrast key : 120

(*) I'm sure Outlook used to be a GDI app, but who knows what version 
you are using
and what rendering technology it uses.
I've tried to make the point many times before that someone can always 
point to
a difference from 'native' rendering simply because the platforms like 
OS X and Windows
have multiple rasterisers and multiple font technologies all of which 
are different
from each other.  So whilst any notably 'poor' rendering needs to be 
looked into
it maybe sometimes an artifact of one rendering path compared to another ..

-phil.

On 3/6/2014 1:21 AM, Robert Fisher 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,
>>
>>
>