The crisp fonts saga

[Mark Raynsford]

On Tue Dec 12 16:03:50 UTC 2023, Thiago Milczarek Sayão wrote:
> Fonts started to look better on Ubuntu 23.04
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/6190
> May be related to this change.

Hello!

To be clear: All the tests I performed were against the last "release"
version of JavaFX on Central (21.0.1, which came out in 2023-10-17). I
patched locally against the current `master` from the jfx repository,
and the current `master` is definitely still discarding bitmaps and
hinting:

https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/blob/master/modules/javafx.graphics/src/main/java/com/sun/javafx/font/freetype/FTFontFile.java#L133

The file actually hasn't been touched in 7 years!

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