<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 12:54 AM, Phil Race <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philip.race@oracle.com" target="_blank">philip.race@oracle.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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As I started to say on that list, it seems to me that this may be a
font-specific problem.<br></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Fonts have hints. I've seen similar issues when the hints are poor.</div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> </div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
Unfortunately there is no easy way to know if they are poor.<br></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Some clients/apps/rendering systems by policy ignore hints so they
may look OK,<br>
but then they may not look as good on a case where the hints were
good and important.<br>
If I knew exactly what font you were using I could look at it.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div><div>The problem is more or less visible in a number of fonts, including the standard ones used by Java in dialogs, and several very high quality fonts supplied with Ubuntu. Of course, the actual differences vary with fonts.</div></div><div> <br></div></div><div>Also, the poor quality of font rendering of Java/Linux is known. This why there are the patches, the alternative "fixed" versions of OpenJDK etc.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><br></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
Oracle's builds use a one that ships with the JDK binaries (not
source)<br>
All openjdk builds use freetype. On Linux this means Ubuntu's
openjdk will<br>
use the exact same copy of freetype as used for rendering the rest
of your desktop!<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks, so I was wrong. Then, it might be a misconfigured freetype, a buggy interface to freetype or whatever.</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
So if it looks bad with that, it will look bad on your desktop
unless the font is interpreted differently.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not true. The particular font, like a lot of the other (if you wish, I may send you example images), is badly rendered only in Java. Other Freetype apps render these fonts very well, thanks to the exceptional quality of that library.</div><div><br></div><div>If I run Netbeans with its standard fonts and --jdk-home of the Android Studio jdk, the GUI quality is immediately improved, thanks to the fonts rendered as expected from a properly supported Freetype.</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>