> Would i be right to say that you don't work with > Windows Vista? Yes, of course I don't use windows vista. I use Fedora-7, and I use the DeJaVu Fonts as default. Also there rendering is quite different, they differ even more than Java and Vista's rasterizer, but after all for me its not a problem. I would also argue against a freetype-backend to support more native "unix font rendering".
The difference in rendering the > default Vista UI font (Segoe UI 12 pixels / 9 points) > is quite large, as any non-casual Vista user will > note. You can argue that Vista is seen as a > commercial failure, people are switching back to XP, > Ubuntu rules, real developers use Macs, but that has > nothing to do with the objective rasterization > quality on a major target platform. Well, I did not say that rasterization differences are not problematic, there are people who sit in front of the screen and look at every font and ask themself why it looks different. What I am against is the resolution that was choosen - it introduces new code-paths, new bugs and complicates the whole architecture. Wouldn't it have been enough to adopt Sun's rasterizer to look like the MS one, at least for "Segoe". Its very unlikely anyway to find this font on Unix or Mac ;) lg Clemens [Message sent by forum member 'linuxhippy' (linuxhippy)] http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=269033 =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA2D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
