At the moment java font rasterizer only supports hinting for Truetype fonts.
However, Type1 fonts are commonplace on Solaris/Linux platforms and they
often look not very good without hinting.
To reproduce one may use following test
(cour.pfa font is required, results are saved to new.png file):
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import javax.imageio.*;
public class Visual {
private static void tryFont(String fontFile, String testStr, float sz1, float sz2) {
try {
System.err.println("Testing "+fontFile);
Font f = Font.createFont(Font.TYPE1_FONT, new FileInputStream(fontFile));
BufferedImage bi = new BufferedImage(1000, 400, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) bi.getGraphics();
g2.setColor(Color.WHITE);
g2.setFont(f);
int off = 10;
for(float sz=sz1; sz < sz2; sz+=1.0) {
off += (int) sz+5;
f = f.deriveFont(Font.PLAIN, sz);
g2.setFont(f);
g2.drawString(""+sz+" "+testStr, 10, off);
}
ImageIO.write(bi, "png", new File("new.png"));
System.err.println("Test done");
} catch (Exception e) {
System.err.println("Failed to test "+fontFile+" because of " + e);
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
tryFont("cour.pfa", "0123456789 abcdefghijklmnopqrstxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTXYZ !\"()[]/\\%$#@^&*-+=_", 7, 20);
}
}