Re: Very uneven kerning with the default 11 pt font on Windows

This bug seems to be fixed now. The default font size is still 11pt but 
no more "uneven kerning".

See attached Window10_Java15_11pt_BEFORE_BUG_FIX.png

See attached Window10_Java15_11pt_AFTER_BUG_FIX.png




On 12/30/20 6:16 PM, Daniel Dekany wrote:
> It uses the Java version packed with XXE:
> 
> c:\Program Files (x86)\XMLmind_XML_Editor\bin\jre64\bin>.\java.exe -version
> openjdk version "14.0.2" 2020-07-14
> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 14.0.2+12-46)
> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.0.2+12-46, mixed mode)
> 
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 10:36 AM Hussein Shafie <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     On 12/16/20 3:39 PM, Daniel Dekany wrote:
>      > With 11 pt font kerning is so erratic on Windows 10 (XXE 9.4.1),
>      > sometimes I think there's an accidental space in the text. If I
>     change
>      > the font size to 10 pt, it looks The default font size was 10 pt
>     before
>      > 9.4. So if the poor quality kerning can't be fixed (maybe a Swing
>      > thing), then the default should be probably reverted to 10pt. Even
>      > View/"Text size"/Larger looks OK with that. Well, I guess this also
>      > depends on what font is used as "SansSerif", but certainly it's
>     the same
>      > for most Windows users.
>      >
>      > Sample image (XXE 9.4.1):
>      >
>     https://www.dropbox.com/s/j82gjao33yobapc/11pt%20kerning%20issues.png?dl=0
>     <https://www.dropbox.com/s/j82gjao33yobapc/11pt%20kerning%20issues.png?dl=0>
> 
>      >
>     <https://www.dropbox.com/s/j82gjao33yobapc/11pt%20kerning%20issues.png?dl=0
>     <https://www.dropbox.com/s/j82gjao33yobapc/11pt%20kerning%20issues.png?dl=0>>
>      >
> 
>     Thank you for taking the time to report this issue.
> 
>     We want to reproduce this issue here at XMLmind Software. So one more
>     question please. Which version of Java do you use on your Windows 10
>     PC?
>     Java 8? Java 11? Java 15? Thank you for your help.
>


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