Re: small fonts with the Sun Java VM

The relevant sentence in this article is: "Sun, even when anti-aliasing,
pays no attention to the font rendering hints. This why small font sizes are
so grungy looking."

So, the answer to my question is no: this is a defect of Sun's VM, there's
no way to tune it. Yahoo game rooms are going to look grungy.

As for the discussion of anti-aliasing cluges for large fonts in code you
write yourself, two solid gray areas appeared in the article, apparently
where example code should have been displayed. The first gray area
immediately follows sentence, "To anti-alias fonts, you have to go through a
gambit like this in your Canvas paint method:"

Since this page is at your website, it may display correctly for you, but I
thought you might want to know, it doesn't necessarily display correctly
elsewhere.

"Roedy Green" <my_email_is_posted_on_my_website@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:cc7ho1515ook73qu1ii86la4avmlufb79h@xxxxxxxxxx
> On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:11:05 -0600, "Albert Oppenheimer"
> <spam@xxxxxxxx> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>
>>Is there any way to get the Sun VM to handle fonts better?
>
> see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/antialiasing.html
> --
> Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green.
> http://mindprod.com Java custom programming, consulting and coaching.


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