[R] JGR font rendering on Windows

Mike Prager Mike.Prager at noaa.gov
Tue Jun 28 23:10:42 CEST 2005


JGR users on Windows may be interested that Sun has released a preview 
of its latest Java development kit and runtime engine at

http://www.java.net/download/jdk6/binaries/

This removes the main problem I have had with JGR and other Java 
programs on Windows: poor font rendering.  On Windows XP with an LCD 
display, the improvement is striking, as this uses Windows native font 
smoothing (CoolType).  I believe it uses the default Windows font 
smoothing on other versions of Windows or other displays.

MHP

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