JDK-8091616 : Prism: font: ligature and kerning support
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: javafx
  • Sub-Component: graphics
  • Affected Version: fx2.0
  • Priority: P3
  • Status: Open
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Submitted: 2010-02-11
  • Updated: 2018-09-05
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JDK-8101365 - Complex text with BiDi support
Description
In the Soma release and earlier, Java 2D can be used to support kerning and ligatures (optional
and required). Prism lacks opentype layout which would provide a basis for that
so this is related to and dependent on that requirement
Comments
FYI, we have all the code to perform kerning in place, it is just not exposed in the API. My intention was to design an API for kerning as well as other typography features, but we ran out of time for this in JavaFX 8.
22-07-2014
No kerning, no tracking, no javafx for me. Even AWT does this stuff...
16-07-2014
Not part of the FX 8 PRD, consider for future release
27-10-2012
I'm aware of the proposal to add SVG glyphs to opentype fonts. There's a draft here http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-svgopentype/2012Aug/att-0000/SVG_in_OpenType_WD_2012-08-07.pdf
14-08-2012
And if you want more than OpenType features, SVG fonts [1] allowed multicolor glyphs and some people liked this feature [2], by example for emoji or illuminated initials. [1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/fonts.html [2]: http://www.w3.org/community/svgopentype/
14-08-2012
As far as API goes I believe we should design a API that allows more than kerning and ligatures. Advance font features should also be allowed, for example: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/#font-rend-props
14-08-2012
RT-17411 Complex text, will, as a subtask, enable OpenType layout. Only after that is in we can add ligature support. It will also depend on having measuring APIs that understand this.
11-11-2011