On 11/26/2010 10:20 AM, Mario Torre wrote: > Il giorno ven, 26/11/2010 alle 09.50 -0500, Omair Majid ha scritto: >> On 11/26/2010 05:40 AM, Mario Torre wrote: >>> Is there anything changed in the way OpenJDK handles fonts in the latest >>> fedora? >>> >>> I update the system: >>> >>> java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-43.1.8.2.fc13.x86_64 >>> >>> And now my nice antialiased fonts are gone. I do have freetype with the >>> patented hinting enabled (and the patent *is* expired), but it looks >>> like the setting is not picked up by OpenJDK. >>> >> >> AFAIK the default freetype packages have subpixel rendering disabled. >> This is different from the bytecode interpreter (which does hinting). >> Can you please ensure that supixel rendering is enabled in freetyp? >> (Note that most other applications work around it, so they wont be >> affected if subpixel rendering is disabled in freetype). When I build >> freetype with subpixel rendering enabled, it shows up fine with OpenJDK. >> >> Cheers, >> Omair > > Yep, indeed, > > It was my fault, the update also updated freetype, but I resumed from > suspend, that means the freetype library used by the running the other > applications was not reloaded, but the first time I launched OpenJDK... > well... > > I fixed this by recompiling freetype... Funny that Fedora still has the > subpixel rendering off by default. > Almost nothing (aside from OpenJDK) uses freetype for subpixel rendering. Almost every toolkit including Xft, Cairo (gnome) and Qt (KDE) performs subpixel anti aliasing itself. > Thanks for the hints :) > You're welcome. Cheers, Omair -- java-devel mailing list java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/java-devel
