How can I inherit the system's anti-alias setting for painting text to off-screen images like swing does?

Question

When I run my swing GUI applications under Java 6, they automatically use my configured sub-pixel anti-alias settings for all fonts. The result is much improved over standard A

Answer 1

Wait, are you running this code on a Windows JVM? I thought ClearType was a Microsoft technology that Swing inherits through some native code (ie, not available on Linux or other non Microsoft platforms).

I once wrote a servlet that generated JPGs with anti aliased fonts that ran on Debian, and this was the code I used

Font font = new Font("Komix", Font.PLAIN, 8);
Graphics2D g2;
g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
FontRenderContext  frc = g2.getFontRenderContext();
g2.setFont(font);
g2.setPaint(Color.black);
g2.drawString(sMessage, xOffset, yOffset);

Offhand I can't recall if any of this code relies on Swing (I imported javax.swing and the servlet is about 300 lines long, so I may have thought I needed it for something else), a quick check on Google looks like this is squarely in the AWT space. Hope that helps.