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FreeCol: FreeCol is a turn-based strategy game based on the old game Colonization, and similar to Civilization. The objective of the game is to create an independent nation.
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Ugly text rendering #21

Closed Beep6581 closed 4 years ago

Beep6581 commented 6 years ago

Hello

The text rendered in all panels is ugly: imgur-2018_04_25-17 00 19

The text rendered in tooltips is nice (see the model.option.useXRender tooltip): imgur-2018_04_25-17 00 42

Can I do anything to make the text render nicely?

nightly-2018-04-07-4-g d4c258852

$ java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_161"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 3.7.0) (Gentoo icedtea-3.7.0)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.161-b12, mixed mode)
HighwayofLife commented 6 years ago

Seems like an anti-alias setting is disabled or turned off.

Beep6581 commented 6 years ago

Adding this to the command line solved it: -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on

More options: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Java_Runtime_Environment_fonts#Basic_settings

My full launcher command-line:

java -Xmx2G -Dsun.java2d.opengl=true -jar "$HOME/programs/code-freecol/FreeCol.jar" --freecol-data "$HOME/programs/code-freecol/data"

imgur-2018_04_29-09 54 13

imgur-2018_04_29-09 54 28

I will leave the closing of the issue to you.

Beep6581 commented 5 years ago

Now I add a freecol alias to ~/.bashrc as follows:

alias freecol='java -Xmx1G -Dsun.java2d.opengl=true -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on -jar "$HOME/programs/code-freecol/FreeCol.jar" --freecol-data "$HOME/programs/code-freecol/data"'

When I want to run freecol, I just type "freecol" without having to cd anywhere.

mpope042 commented 4 years ago

Yep, Java/OS/whatever defaults change and make FreeCol look ugly. Not a lot we can do about it, but thanks Beep6581 for finding the work around.