font rendering issues on java applications

[LinuxLars]

In jaunty alpha 2, and in 8.10, I'm seeing font rendering issues in various java applications. I have tried several fonts and have the same result in each. This worked fine in 8.04.

I have attached a screenshot of one of the examples.

I'm running:
ubuntu jaunty 9.04 (alpha2)
java-6-sun-1.6.0.11
on a Lenovo X61s
(in this example Aqua Data Studio v 7.0.22)

Thanks!

[Alan LaMielle (alan.lamielle)]

I'm experiencing very similar issues. In my case it is with JabRef. Font rendering is garbled at times, table rows are not tall enough for the contained text, etc. I have attached an image that shows this.

Any ideas on what the problem could be?

Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 (currently up to date with repos)
sun-java6-jdk 6-12-0ubuntu1
Lenovo X200

I've also tried using OpenJDK, but with similar results.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

FWIW, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/HugeFonts

[LinuxLars (lwilson-casadelnorte)]

Interesting. I run:
# xdpyinfo | grep dots

and get resolution: 106x105 dots per inch

yet in the Details tab on System->Preferences->Appearance->Fonts it shows the resolution at 96dpi.

I had to downgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 to get some work done - do you think just changing the DPI to 105 would work?

[sterios prosiniklis (steriosprosiniklis)]

The same problem here.
Running OmegaT 2.0.5 in Karmic 64bit fully updated.
Seems a java problem not ubuntu related.
I have the same result running system or the embedded to the application java

:~$ sudo update-java-alternatives -l
java-6-sun 63 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun

:~$ java -jar -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on /opt/OmegaT/OmegaT.jar
92428: Info: ===================================================================
92428: Info: OmegaT-2.0.5 (Sun Nov 08 08:09:51 EET 2009) Locale el_GR
92428: Info: Java: Sun Microsystems Inc. ver. 1.6.0_15, executed from '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.15/jre' (LOG_STARTUP_INFO)
92428: Info: Docking Framework version: 2.1.4
92428: Info: Hunspell loaded successfully from /opt/OmegaT/native/libhunspell-amd64.so
92428: Info: Event: application startup (LOG_INFO_EVENT_APPLICATION_STARTUP)

:~$ /opt/OmegaT/OmegaT 20091: Info: ===================================================================
20091: Info: OmegaT-2.0.5 (Sun Nov 08 08:11:52 EET 2009) Locale el_GR
20091: Info: Java: Sun Microsystems Inc. ver. 1.6.0_05, executed from '/opt/OmegaT/jre' (LOG_STARTUP_INFO)
20091: Info: Docking Framework version: 2.1.4
20091: Info: Hunspell loaded successfully from /opt/OmegaT/native/libhunspell-i386.so
20091: Info: Event: application startup (LOG_INFO_EVENT_APPLICATION_STARTUP)

The -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on option makes a small difference but does not solve the problem.

[sterios prosiniklis (steriosprosiniklis)]

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