Phil,
> I looked at your images together with our font expert, and we
> don't see a big difference between the 1.1.7 & 1.2.2 cases.
Then why do we all go through the trouble of creating anti-aliased text?!
Although the difference will always be slight, it is still an improvement
when reading text! Do you and your font expert have the same perceptual
likes/dislikes as all Java users everywhere? Anti-aliased text is becoming
the norm not the exception.
I think you are missing the point. A user comparing a Java non-anti-aliased
program to a native non-Java anti-aliased WILL notice a difference (however
slight). The non-aliased Java program appears to have less quality. I
don't want my Java application to be sub-par to native
Windows/Solaris/Macintosh programs using anti-aliasing.
> If you turn on anti-aliasing, make sure you turn the fractional metrics
> rendering hint on too. When using integer metrics as you are
> apparently doing,
> you can get a cumulative rounding-up effect on glyph placement.
Turning this hint on had little effect in the clipping of text.
I'm still at standstill. How can we get anti-alias text to render properly
with Swing? Ignoring it won't make the issue go away as it will continue to
surface as more platforms and programs use anti-alias fonts. Who at Sun can
take this ball and run with it?
-Ron (not Rusty)
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