javaswingfontsremote-desktopsynth

Some fonts in my Java-swing application look pixelized on remote desktop

I'm changing the look and feel of a Java application using Synth. The font in the app used to be "Ariel" and so we wanted to change it to something else. I need a font with multi-language support, so I tried "Roboto" and "Noto". It works fine until I try to view the application from a remote desktop connection. Then it the letters get pixelized as: enter image description here enter image description here enter image description here

Instead of: enter image description here enter image description here enter image description here

Some notes:

  1. I tried the "ClearType" enable and configurations. No luck.
  2. When I return to the original desktop (The one I've connected to through "remote desktop"), the view is still corrupted. If I refresh the view of the app (using SwingUtilities.updateComponentTreeUI(....) the fonts return to look fine.
Solution

  • Well, it appears that remote desktop sessions will disable font smoothing (anti-aliasing) as default to save bandwidth: https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts/issues/817