Re: Text rendering on Windows

2014-08-18 Thread Kevin Rushforth
Can you file a JIRA and send screen-shots to Felipe? -- Kevin John C. Turnbull wrote: Richard, I totally agree on the subjective nature of "font appreciation" but that's not really what I am highlighting here. What I am seeing is a difference between the quality of font rendering between JFX

Re: Text rendering on Windows

2014-08-18 Thread John C. Turnbull
Richard, I totally agree on the subjective nature of "font appreciation" but that's not really what I am highlighting here. What I am seeing is a difference between the quality of font rendering between JFX and native apps on the same machine with the same font etc. and the JFX rendering is defi

Re: Text rendering on Windows

2014-08-18 Thread John C. Turnbull
That's great to hear Kevin! > On 18 Aug 2014, at 10:39 pm, Kevin Rushforth > wrote: > > >> As for LCD on Canvas, I am very pleased that it is being addressed and even >> though I want it right now, JFX 9 fits fairly well with my timeline. >> Hopefully there will be preview releases to test i

Re: Text rendering on Windows

2014-08-18 Thread Kevin Rushforth
As for LCD on Canvas, I am very pleased that it is being addressed and even though I want it right now, JFX 9 fits fairly well with my timeline. Hopefully there will be preview releases to test in the not too distant future... Btw, as I mentioned in another thread we are looking to pull

Re: Text rendering on Windows

2014-08-18 Thread Richard Bair
> I won't be able to get access to a Windows machine for another week or so but > when I do I will gladly send you some screenshots. However, are you saying > that this is the first time anyone has reported such a finding? There's no > existing JIRA for this specific issue? I ask because even t

Re: Text rendering on Windows

2014-08-18 Thread John C. Turnbull
Hi Felipe, Thanks for your prompt and informative response. I won't be able to get access to a Windows machine for another week or so but when I do I will gladly send you some screenshots. However, are you saying that this is the first time anyone has reported such a finding? There's no exist

Re: Text rendering on Windows

2014-08-18 Thread Felipe Heidrich
Hi John, 1) There are many different ways to configure DirectWrite, but without more details I can not tell what that is for your case. Maybe the first thing to try is to go to DWGlyph#createAnalysis() and changed the rendering mode from DWRITE_RENDERING_MODE_NATURAL to DWRITE_RENDERING_MODE_GD

Text rendering on Windows

2014-08-18 Thread John C. Turnbull
Hi Felipe, I just finished watching your excellent presentation at SVJUGFX on text rendering with JavaFX and have a couple of multi part questions: 1) I noted that DirectWrite is now used to rasterise fonts on Windows instead of T2K or GDI and I for one am pleased about this. However, no matter