Uploaded image for project: 'JDK'
  1. JDK
  2. JDK-6436899

Type1 hinting: Luxi Sans 13 pt look bad

XMLWordPrintable

    • 2d
    • generic
    • generic

      Intial support for Type1 hints introduced in mustang helped to improve quality of type1 fonts in
      many cases but still there are many cases to be improved.

      In particular glyphs 'bdeg' (size 13) and some others of font
      /usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1/l048013t.pfa: "Luxi Sans" "Regular"
      look bad (B&W or greyscale).

      This specific font and those specific glyphs are important
      because they are the worst offenders in what seems to be a standard
      font on some configs
      (E.g. this font is picked as font matching desktop font 'sans' on Fedora Core 4).

      Screenshot of Netbeans illustrating problems is attached.

      Note that this bug is different from umbrella RFE 6331344.
      It focuses on particular problems and at first glance these glyphs mostly use
      hints already supported by jdk rasterizer but contains many non-trivial curves.
      Would be great if we can better apply these hints to curves.
      I added screenshot of NetBeans main menu under Linux Fedora core, where font problems are unfortunately very visible.

            prr Philip Race
            igor Igor Nekrestyanov (Inactive)
            Votes:
            0 Vote for this issue
            Watchers:
            2 Start watching this issue

              Created:
              Updated:
              Resolved:
              Imported:
              Indexed: