Re: Swing Font Rasterizer

I agree that Swing/Netbeans fonts look pretty ugly on my LCD
monitor at home.  But I'm not sure that this is the right forum
to affect change (other than the fact that some Sun guys read it
and might forward your request.)  In the meantime, maybe you
can encourage people to vote for this bug?  I looked in the
Sun database and the most relevant one (open since 2002!) is
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4726365
It only had 39 votes....I added my little vote to make it 40.

If you can convince 15 more people to vote for this bug, this
bug will make the "Top 25 Bugs" list - perhaps it'll be more
likely to get fixed then?  Who knows.

Good luck,
tom

S. Gersmann wrote:

> Hello,
> as you probably know Swings font rasterizer is a huge problem, when 
> you're running Java applications on a notebook or PC with a LCD screen. 
> This of course is not the only flaw Swing has but it is a significant 
> one that can not be fixed without Suns help.
> 
> Several bugs and RFEs have been submitted dating 2002 and nothing 
> happened. So how does this relate to Netbeans. The usage scenarios of NB 
> are very text driven. Although I like NB alot it is quite unusable on my 
> notebook because of this issue. I have made two screenshot comparing the 
> Eclipse(native) an N(Swing) font rendering. Although the native font 
> rendering look a bit strange, when magnified it improves readability 
> significantly on LCDs.
> 
> http://home.cs.tum.edu/~gersmann/netbeans.jpg (antialiasing enabled)
> http://home.cs.tum.edu/~gersmann/eclipse.jpg
> 
> The technique that has to be applied here is called subpixel hinting and 
> supported by every major plattform ecxept Java (and Solaris if that 
> counts as a major plattform). A lot of people have no other choice than 
> using Eclipse instead. This is also a big problem for Java application 
> developers who are moving to .NET and SWT.
> 
> My question is if someone knows if Sun is aware of this problem and 
> going to fix it and if there is maybe someone out there in the position 
> to put some pressure on the Swing team to fix this serious issue that 
> applies to the whole Desktop Java community?
> 
> Regards,
> S. Gersmann
>