text lines seem not to rotate correctly (rounding error?) when the current font is created with
createFont.

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example

That's pretty ugly, though I'm not sure if there's much we can do about it.
I looked into setting the Java2D RenderingHint to enable fractional
metrics, but that didn't help. Nor did switching to drawGlyphVector() or
drawString() instead of drawChars().

### Eclipse Workspace Patch 1.0
#P processing-head
Index: core/src/processing/core/PGraphicsJava2D.java
============================================================
=======
--- core/src/processing/core/PGraphicsJava2D.java (revision 5676)
+++ core/src/processing/core/PGraphicsJava2D.java (working copy)
@@ -1111,7 +1111,18 @@

g2.setColor(fillColorObject);
int length = stop - start;
- g2.drawChars(buffer, start, length, (int) (x + 0.5f), (int) (y + 0.5f));
+
+ // Silly rabbit! ints are for kids.
+ // g2.drawChars(buffer, start, length, (int) (x + 0.5f), (int) (y + 0.5f));
+ // jdf sez:
+ g2.translate(x,y);
+ try {
+ g2.fill(font.createGlyphVector(g2.getFontRenderContext(), new
String(buffer,start,length)).getOutline());
+ } finally {
+ g2.translate(-x, -y);
+ }
+
+
// better to use drawString() with floats? (nope, draws the same)
//g2.drawString(new String(buffer, start, length), x, y);

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Fix 866... the Wordle Way

The pasted patch lost all its formatting, so here's the real deal, Neil.

how expensive is:

g2.fill(font.createGlyphVector(g2.getFontRenderContext(), new
String(buffer,start,length)).getOutline());

for computation time / temp object creation etc? (i'd been avoiding using
these Java 2D methods because they tend to be accurate but slow as all hell)

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More succinct patch

I guess one line is better than six.

Ugh, you're right; it's way too slow. The Sun graphics stuff has completely different
pipelines for drawing text.

bummer.. hopefully we can find something that works w/o having to go too
far into the Java 2D mess.