[jsword-devel] aa-experiment

[DM Smith]

I like it. I think that we should make it an option though for a couple 
of reasons.
First, smaller fonts (like in the notes, which are 90% of the main font 
size) are harder to read.
I played around with it and I think that MS Arial Unicode in 17 pt looks 
very good.
At 18 point the font goes bold looking.
One way around this is not to make the font for notes smaller than that 
of the body. (Which I would suggest anyway.)

Second, I read in a PC mag the other day that someone was complaining 
that on his machine that the small letter 'i" looked gold. Turns out 
that it was because of the anti-aliasing of the font and the convergence 
problems of the user's CRT. Turning off "Font Smoothing" was recommended.

I have a question about the implementation. In the code you are grabbing 
the Graphics object every time and then setting a hint on it. Is this 
something that can be done once? Or does it need to be done everytime 
the paint method is called?


Joe Walker wrote:

>I've just checked in a quick experiment in anti-aliasing. I've made
>all book views a-a with a quick hack I found from javalobby.
>
>Easy to remove if there are any hiccups, but it looks loads better to
>me. Some question if it slows things down, but see what you all think.
>
>Joe.
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