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Alex Waller wrote:
>     To summarize; I've verified that Borland 1.3.1 JDK on Windows,
> Sun 1.3.1_07 on Windows, and Apple 1.3.1 JDK on the Mac all seem to work
> 
> the same and produce "acceptable" results when a window having rotated
> text is resized to a long, narrow window. However the Sun version JDK
> 1.4.1_01 produces unacceptable results. So something "broke" with
> version 1.4.1_01. Is this a known problem? Is there a workaround? Or
> should I be now doing things differently?
>     Some extra added info that might help. It seems to be associated
> with the screen rendering of fonts. A plot procedure that I have can
> print several (plot) panels (JPanel) that are in a window to a single
> page. The rotated fonts seem to come out OK on the printer under JDK
> 1.4.1 (again they looked stretched out but not illegible).
>     I include source code below which demonstrates this problem. After
> the window is displayed make the window long and narrow and watch what
> happens to the rotated (Y-axis) text.
> 

Interesting.  The difference appears to be subtle, but makes a 
significant difference in readability when you really squish it.

I haven't seen this anywhere else.  I think you will have to try and 
submit it as a JDK bug.

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Regards,

Lori Olson (TeamB)

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