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Greg Brown resolved PIVOT-503.
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Assignee: Greg Brown
Resolution: Not A Problem
I can see that this is going to be an ongoing issue. :-) Pivot 1.4 and
earlier did not properly respect the system text AA hints, and many Windows
users felt that text did not look appropriately native. I tend to prefer
screenshot-1.jpg myself, but that is because it looks more like how text is
rendered on Mac OS X, which I use (see osx-pivot.png). To me, even though it
isn't perfect, windows-pivot.png does look a lot more like windows-native.png
than osx-pivot.png.
The fundamental problem is that Java2D does not use native text rendering but
instead renders text internally using "hints" provided by the native platform.
Some fonts (like Verdana) render reasonably well, but others don't look quite
as good.
It might be worth making this configurable in a later release (i.e. use native
hints or use standard AA, which produces the OS X-like text).
> Using ClearType, bold text in Pivot 1.5 looks very bad
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> Key: PIVOT-503
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-503
> Project: Pivot
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 1.5
> Environment: WIndows XP SP3, Dell 24" monitor, 1920x1200 resolution,
> NVIDIA Quadro FX 570 video card, Dell T5400 machine, Pivot 1.5 using SVN
> trunk on 5/24/10
> Reporter: Roger Whitcomb
> Assignee: Greg Brown
> Fix For: 1.5
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> Attachments: osx-pivot.png, screenshot-1.jpg, screenshot-2.jpg,
> windows-native.png, windows-pivot.png
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> ClearType is enabled and setup using the Wizard for best readability on my
> system. Text rendered as BOLD (for instance in "Border" components) looks
> good in Pivot 1.4 (release), but looks very bad in 1.5 as of 5/24/10. See
> attached screenshots.
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