Andrea, thanks for the feedback. I wondered if it was going to be an
openjdk issue (why I was sure to include it in the description). I'll
switch to the Sun-JVM (ugh, Oracle. I'll never get used to that) and see
if that improves things.
Sorry for the duplicative question, I couldn't find anything in the
archives.
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 5:43 AM, Andrea Aime
<andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it>wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 7:27 PM, J. Jones <jbjonesjr+...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello list,
> > I have what is probably a simple configuration failure on my part, but
> i
> > figure the list is a good place to start:
> >
> > When generating WMS tiles from GEOServer and presenting them via a SLD
> > style, the fonts displayed look... bad. I've attached some links to a
> side
> > by side comparison that I did to the font being rendered via the WMS+SLD
> > solution, and one rendered via a geojson output from geoserver,
> displayed as
> > an openlayers vector layer (therefore using browser svg technology for
> the
> > rendering). I would expect both to look similar (if anything, the
> advantage
> > given to the server-based geoserver/wms solution, but that does not seem
> to
> > be the result.
> >
> > Side by side comparison:
> > http://cwg.jbjonesjr.com/notes/GeoserverFontProblem.jpg
> > WMS+SLD only http://cwg.jbjonesjr.com/notes/geoserver-tile-text.jpg
> > GEOJSON + Openlayers + Firefox 13 + SVG:
> > http://cwg.jbjonesjr.com/notes/svg-tile-text.jpg
> >
> > You can clearly see the difference between the Client rendered fonts and
> the
> > server rendered fonts.
> >
> > Geoserver specifics:
> > OS: Ubuntu 8.11
> > Kernel: 3.0.0-12
> > JVM: Sun Microsystems Inc.: 1.6.0_23 (OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM)
> > Native JAI/ImageIO : true
> > DataStore: PostGIS
> > Fonts: Arial Bold is listed as an available font
> >
> > I have not delved into any of the geoserver logs yet to look for anything
> > associated with this issue. Maybe it's an openjdk image rendering
> problem,
> > but figured I'd start here.
>
> Yep, fonts are looking bad, almost as if they were not antialiased.
> As reported many times on this list, OpenJDK java2d subsystem is still
> quite sub-par, especially so the 1.6.x series one (I hear the OpenJDK 7
> is somewhat better).
>
> Long story short, I'd suggest switch to Oracle JDK instead
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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