Hi
I've been at comdex this week so I'm just catching up on email, I hope we
can resolve redhats distribution issue soon. The fonts problem on linux
will improve with the availability of truetype rendering in Xfree, but we
should also continue to work on the fonts supplied with java
regards
calvin
>I program desktop graphics for a large company (Disney). We develop in
>part on Linux and deploy on SGI, but possibly linux in the future.
>Elsewhere in the company there are mac clients with sun servers, etc.
>
>My two issues:
>
>1) FONTS. The fonts look different on every platform, and they
>only look good on windows. In many cases this destroys the
>cross-platform promise of Swing - at best the interfaces look
>unprofessional; sometimes we need to have different fonts on
>the different platforms (the font that works on one is clipped by
>the textbox on the other).
> Naively I would have thought that SUN could pay a graphic artist
>to develop a "metal" font and bundle this with swing. With so
>much of the rest of the font rendering done in java, I might think
>that this would give a uniform appearance?
> But I know that I'm ignorant of X/truetype/other font rendering issues.
>
>2) Distribute the jre. This isn't so much of a company specific
>issue, but I would like to see the jre widely distributed so that
>the promise of the java "platform" becomes a reality. Asking users
>to download 5megs is asking a lot if they have a modem.
>There's been progress on this recently with caldera/turbolinux/etc.,
>but RedHat, by far the biggest linux distrib, does not include
>anything other than kaffe. But, they include every other computer
>language on the planet, and they include StarOffice5.1 (before
>openoffice) and other non-GPL apps on their extra's disk. Why can't
>they include a jre?
>
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