Re: Swing Font Rasterizer

Thomas Wolf wrote:

> 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.

It appears your request worked - the bug now has 50 votes.

-Tim

> 
> 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
>>
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