I missed that one. It was assigned a little oddly to someone not really
working on fonts
so I've grabbed it and will address under that ID.
-phil.
On 12/9/2014 3:31 PM, Jeff Hain wrote:
>https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-6808
Created a JIRA account to be able to see this, but I still c
>https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-6808
Created a JIRA account to be able to see this, but I still can't (permission
violation).Meanwhile, I saw this one, which seems to be what I ask for :-
https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-37081 (Add withXxx semantics to Font to
create derived ver
https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-6808
mentions that we could add a deriveFont. This is in the context of
a loadFont context but it is somewhat buried in the larger subject
of that bug.
So if anyone (external) would like to file an RFE directly requesting it
along with justification, that m
>There's probably an RFE or bug that mentions the omission of deriveFont
>Its the most direct way to say many things
Thanks. Good to know for planning stable abstract APIs.
-Jeff
en callFont.load("FreeMono", FontWeight.BOLD, 1.0), but the
resulting lookis quite different than AWT's bold FreeMono.ttf.
===> Are there plans to add font derivation in JavaFX, so that fonts
of various styles can be obtained from a same ".ttf" file, or
will it sta
s no way to obtain a bold version of "FreeMono.ttf".The best you can do is to
load "FreeMonoBold.ttf" and then callFont.load("FreeMono", FontWeight.BOLD, 1.0), but the
resulting lookis quite different than AWT's bold FreeMono.ttf.
===> Are there plans to add fo
ion of it.
In JavaFX, there is no way to obtain a bold version of "FreeMono.ttf".The best
you can do is to load "FreeMonoBold.ttf" and then callFont.load("FreeMono",
FontWeight.BOLD, 1.0), but the resulting lookis quite different than AWT's bold
FreeMono.ttf.
==
