jonas svensson

Now there we got it! For all the java-fonts, the height is about double
what it should be and about all the extra height is used by "leading".
Renaming fontconfig.properties.src to fontconfig.properties did not seem
to make any difference. I can't see leading beeing mentioned anywhere in
that file so maybe that wasn't so surprising. Now is the question how
could be and what do I do about it?

Also, Thanks for all the help!


****** Default font ******
Familyialog
FontNameialog.plain
Nameefault
PSNameialog.plain
toString:javax.swing.plaf.FontUIResource[family=Dialog,name=Default,style=plain,size=1]
attr:java.awt.font.TextAttribute(family)=Default
attr:java.awt.font.TextAttribute(superscript)=0
attr:java.awt.font.TextAttribute(posture)=0.0
attr:java.awt.font.TextAttribute(transform)=java.a wt.font.TransformAttribute@9cab16
attr:java.awt.font.TextAttribute(size)=1.0
attr:java.awt.font.TextAttribute(weight)=1.0
attr:java.awt.font.TextAttribute(width)=1.0
ascent = 0.92163086
descent = 0.2109375
height = 2.1243896
leading = 0.9918213
StrikethroughOffset = -0.36865234
UnderlineOffset = -0.92419624
ROMAN_BASELINE


****** Arial font ******
Family:Arial
FontName:Arial
Name:Arial
PSName:ArialMT
toString:javax.swing.plaf.FontUIResource[family=Arial,name=Arial,style=plain,size=1]
attr:java.awt.font.TextAttribute(family)=Arial
attr:java.awt.font.TextAttribute(superscript)=0
attr:java.awt.font.TextAttribute(posture)=0.0
attr:java.awt.font.TextAttribute(transform)=java.a wt.font.TransformAttribute@9cab16
attr:java.awt.font.TextAttribute(size)=1.0
attr:java.awt.font.TextAttribute(weight)=1.0
attr:java.awt.font.TextAttribute(width)=1.0
ascent = 0.92163086
descent = 0.19555664
height = 1.1499023
leading = 0.032714844
StrikethroughOffset = -0.36865234
UnderlineOffset = -0.92419624
ROMAN_BASELINE

john mcgrath

Hmmmm. I am a little less pleased by those results than you are. It
looks like you have two different java.awt.Font objects with different
metrics, both based on the same system font. I do not know enough about
how Java fonts work to understand what would cause that.

One thing that would be interesting would be to change the configuration
so that the Dialog logical font mapped to a different Windows font, such
as Times New Roman, and then see whether the Default font has extra
leading. I suspect it will, but who knows?

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Regards,

John McGrath