Hi Felipe, thanks for the response. I added a comment to the JIRA issue. I don't have IE installed on my system, but I just made a similar comparison with text in Outlook, and it was indistinguishable from the text in Firefox. Cheers, Rob Von: Felipe Heidrich [mailto:felipe.heidr...@oracle.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 29. August 2013 17:42 An: Robert Fisher Cc: openjfx-dev@openjdk.java.net Betreff: Re: Poor quality font rendering Hi Robert, Please add this information to https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-14187 See my previous message, it is possible the difference is due to the shader we use to produce subpixel glyphs. I would have used IE as a representative of a native Windows Microsoft app, but I get the point. Thanks Felipe On Aug 29, 2013, at 12:07 AM, Robert Fisher wrote:
Hi all, I've done a few tests to compare font rendering between JavaFX and something native on my 64bit Windows 7 machine. I used Firefox to test native font rendering, and JavaFX 8 b100 (my apologies if something's been fixed since then), using the code Phil just posted to create a Label, explicitly specifying black text & a white background. The font is the default one: Segoe UI, size 12. I've attached a screenshot of the word 'Entry' blown up 400%, with the native text on the left. They are similar but the native text is slightly darker. This is actually quite significant - when viewed at 100% the native text looks clearer and more vibrant. The right side of the 'r' is also cut off in the JavaFX case. Is this related to https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-14187 ? And is there anything I can do to increase the 'blackness' of my JavaFX text and make it more like the native text? Thanks for the help. Rob
