This is really embarassing.. Does Java have to look that bad on
Linux? The bellow is from a Sun forum and I make its words mine. Why
doesn't Sun ship descent fonts with their Linux packages? I just got
NetBeans and it's quite unusable.. Can anyone give a reason for that?
"
*Very* ugly fonts in
linux?
Author: esp207
Jul 25, 2003 4:29 PM
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I'm a new developer making the transition from windows to linux (RH9).
I've noticed that the fonts java uses under linux are embarrasingly
poor, almost to the point of looking defictive or 'glitchy'. Letters
like 'M' have what looks to be a pixel missing in the upper left, the
upper case 'W' isn't even close to symmetrical. The spacing between
letters is so odd at times it lookes like there is a space between
adjacent characters (lower case 'b', 'd' and 'p' are the biggest
offenders). Other fonts in linux look great, it only seems to happen in
java apps (NetBeans IDE and the current app i'm working on now). I never
had this problem in Windows.
I've done some google searches, but only seem to find others with the
same complaint, never a solution. If anyone here has a solution or could
point me in the general direction I need to look, please let me know.
Thanks guys."
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