Render Fonts smoothly...

Hi,

I am trying to draw a string onto an image as smoothly as possible.
The problem is that I am streching the font a little to fit my area fully..

AffineTransform fontTransform = new AffineTransform();
fontTransform.scale( xScale , yScale);
Font f = myFont.deriveFont(fontTransform);

g.setFont(f);
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D)g;
g2d.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_TEXT_ANTIALIASING,RenderingHints.VALUE_TEXT_ANTIALIAS_ON);
g2d.drawString(x,y,"Hello");

This works a little but the antialiasing seems to be a bit heavy and the
rendered string looks a bit strange.
Is there another/better way to do this?

Steve


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