Supported Font of JavaFX

[Sam']

Then you tell me JavaFX should be able to display them? Should I open a bug
then in the tracker?


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Hadzic Samir
Ingénieur informatique
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2015-07-01 21:04 GMT+02:00 Phil Race <philip.race at oracle.com>:

>  On 07/01/2015 08:29 AM, Sam' wrote:
>
>   I'm using Windows 7 64 bits.
>
>  I looked into my fonts and you are right, I don't have an italic variant
> of the Algerian font.
>
>  Question is, how does Excel and my navigator (Firefox) managed to display
> an Italic version of that font if I don't have it? They have their own
> fonts?
>
>
> No, they are synthesising it. This is what we do in Java SE (ie Java 2D).
> So far as I can see we do pass down the style request to DirectWrite
> so perhaps it gets lost somewhere before that .. or afterward, or
> perhaps it just has no effect in the way we use it.
>
> -phil.
>
>
>  Thanks
>
>
> 2015-07-01 17:23 GMT+02:00 Phil Race <philip.race at oracle.com>:
>
>> Exactly what version of Windows are you using ?
>> Is there an actual italic variant of Algerian installed on
>> your computer that you can see in the filesystem ?
>> There used to be an issue that we had not implemented synthetic styling
>> but I thought that went away when we started using DirectWrite.
>>
>> -phil.
>>
>>
>> On 7/1/15 2:42 AM, Sam' wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a list somewhere of supported font by JavaFX?
>>>
>>> For example, the "Algerian" font is supported but italic font style is
>>> not
>>> working. But is working with Excel on my computer.
>>>
>>> So is that a bug or simply because that Font is not shipped with italic
>>> mode?
>>>
>>> Sam'
>>>
>>
>>
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