[fedora-java] Fonts hinting

[Mario Torre]

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.

Thanks for the hints :)

Cheers,
Mario
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