Does anyone know if font rendering on Linux respects the OS hinting settings? I've long wanted to create GUI apps in Java, but stayed away because the font rendering was what I consider ugly.
EDIT: Why on earth would someone downvote this?
EDIT: Why on earth would someone downvote this?
True Type Fonts need a little VM in them for processing hints that was patented by Apple. FreeType got around this issue by implementing automatic hinting instead of executing the manual hints.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueType#Linux_and_other_platf...
Windows simply acquired a proper license for TTF rendering. I think these patents caused issues for Swing. The Java font rendering in Swing components was 100% Java and did not use any of the OS font rendering. IIRC these patents have long expired so I don't see why the fonts couldn't look better. I only do Java on the backend so I have no idea how Java guis look these days.
Meanwhile with the transition to OpenJDK as official JDK the code has been merged into OpenJDK.
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2017-November...
http://www.webupd8.org/2013/06/install-openjdk-patched-with-...