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skottish

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Severely ugly fonts in openjdk6 from testing

I have been using icedtea6 from AUR for months now and I just replaced it with openjdk6 from testing. icedtea6 had ugly fonts, but openjdk6 has severely ugly fonts. It's not too horrible with regular fonts, but it is with bold. A good test is the Font2DTest:

java -jar /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk/demo/jfc/Font2DTest/Font2DTest.jar

Does anyone know whether it's possible yet to get good fonts in openjdk6? If so, how?

Last edited by skottish (2008-08-04 18:30:19)

skottish

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Re: Severely ugly fonts in openjdk6 from testing

Bump to end the ugliness.

I need to set anti-aliasing on globally for openjdk before my eyes start to bleed. I've been searching for a long time trying to figure out how to do this. I thought that it might use fontconfig, but so far it's ignoring the settings. Someone? Anyone? After all, this is going to be the default Java for Arch here pretty soon.

jaydoc

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Registered: 2008-12-30

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Re: Severely ugly fonts in openjdk6 from testing

Hi... Has anyone managed to solve this problem of un-anti-aliased fonts...?

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Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

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Re: Severely ugly fonts in openjdk6 from testing

Problem is still here in openjdk6, not in jre/jdk.

I think it is related to: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495988
Our fontconfig.properties.src is correct, but we have no compilefontconfig.jar, so I cannot try what the bug reporter mentioned, "java -jar compilefontconfig.jar fontconfig.config fontconfig.bfc".
In Ubuntu, they added that file in 6b10-1: "* Install compilefontconfig.jar in openjdk-6-jre-lib package."

Should we have that file?

mathieui

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Registered: 2009-07-21

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Re: Severely ugly fonts in openjdk6 from testing

Bump.
Still not fixed.
And that hurts, really.

java -jar /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/demo/jfc/Font2DTest/Font2DTest.jar

gives an option for antialiasing, and it's much better with this, but I don't know where I can set up that option.
(yes, I'm bringing back this topic from its grave, but it an important issue…)

skottish

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Re: Severely ugly fonts in openjdk6 from testing

Since I started this thread the official JRE supports 64 bit and this wiki page came up. I can't tell how good it is because I only go to one page that uses Java anymore.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Jav … _-_Sun_JRE

mathieui

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Re: Severely ugly fonts in openjdk6 from testing

That does not work, but thanks ^^
(I still haven't tried everything, but I'll try later)