[commit-cp] [bugs #11316] Swing: font rendering is 'off'

[Thomas Zander]

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                Thomas Zander <address@hidden>
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I though that the anti-aliasing part would give away I indeed have cairo 
installed and am running a nice Graphics2D classpath.

MM: your comment ignores the last line in the original submission, perhaps you 
an change the subject to more match the rest of the report..






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URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=11316>
Project: classpath
Submitted by: Thomas Zander
On: Tue 12/14/2004 at 18:05

Category:  classpath
Severity:  5 - Average
Resolution:  None
Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None
Status:  Open
Platform Version:  None


Summary:  Swing: font rendering is 'off'

Original Submission:  The default font set on my machine for Swing applications 
is quite ugly.  There is nice anti-aliasing done, but the kerning is completely 
off.
See attached snapshot of some radiobuttons.  If you zoom in you should notice 
that various characters 'touch' each other.

Notice that if I set another font for one widget, then that one renders fine.  
Seems to be a bad default..

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Date: Tue 12/21/2004 at 20:16       By: Thomas Zander <zander>
I though that the anti-aliasing part would give away I indeed have cairo 
installed and am running a nice Graphics2D classpath.

MM: your comment ignores the last line in the original submission, perhaps you 
an change the subject to more match the rest of the report..

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Date: Tue 12/21/2004 at 19:59       By: Michael Koch <mkoch>
For nice font rendering you need to install cairo CVS and enable its usage 
explicitely during configure time. When cairo becomes standard we will built it 
by default. Unfortunately cairo is a fast moving target and not very stable yet.






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