JDK-4919654 : Capital C with Microsoft Sans Serif looks different from native
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: client-libs
  • Sub-Component: 2d
  • Affected Version: 5.0
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Duplicate
  • OS: windows_2000
  • CPU: x86
  • Submitted: 2003-09-09
  • Updated: 2003-09-19
  • Resolved: 2003-09-19
Related Reports
Duplicate :  
JDK-4924220 - Microsoft Sans Serif (True Type) font is not rendered properly
Description
I've attached a screenshot of a java application rendering a 'C' with
the font Microsoft Sans Serif as compared to a native application rendering
a 'C'.  Notice that Java's C is slightly different. The java app's
font size is 11, with native at 8, which I believe are comparable.
Phil and myself tried this with 1.4.2, which is still different from native,
but also slightly different from that of 1.5.
Comments
EVALUATION Name: inR10103 Date: 09/18/2003 Difference in attached images is mainly due to our implementation of Bresenham line-drawing algorithm (which we use during scan conversion). At the moment we always shift by 1 pixel either vertically or horisontaly but we can not shift simultaneosly along both axes. Therefore we never can get line like X X X instead we will get XX X something like XX Also some grid-fitting error may be involved. ======================================================================
24-08-2004