[Live-demo] Fonts in OpenJDK7

maplabs at light42.com maplabs at light42.com
Mon Jul 15 10:51:25 PDT 2013


Hi -

  this is a screeen shot of OpenJump on Live 7 build 10357.. lots of 
tightly spaced dialog boxes.. 
looks ok to me !  I have not heard of font spacing issues from the field... 

   http://snag.gy/NHwwv.jpg

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Brian M Hamlin
OSGeo California Chapter

On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:39:10 +0200, Activity Workshop 
<mail at activityworkshop.net> wrote:
I haven't tried out a recent version of the live image, so please
> forgive my basic question. 
> When the transition was made from a Sun JDK to an OpenJDK, were there 
> any problems (or complaints) about the appearance of fonts within the 
> java desktop OSGeo applications?  Fonts being unattractive, menus 
> being too wide, that kind of thing?
>
> And if so, was any solution found to this?  I'm hoping that if 
> someone found a solution for OSGeo Live (or Xubuntu) then maybe it 
> will also be a valid solution for Ubuntu and Debian. 
>
> To be honest I was hoping it was just a temporary OpenJDK6 problem or 
> only an Ubuntu problem but I'm now faced with the issue directly 
> myself with OpenJDK7  :(
>
> Thanks!
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