How do you enable anti aliasing in arbitrary Java apps?

Question

Many Java Apps don\'t use anti-aliased fonts by default, despite the capability of Swing to provide them. How can you coerce an arbitrary java application to use AA fonts?

Answer 1

For the record, I have found out that in my windows 7 machine,

• If I don't use this in my code, I get the nice ClearType subpixel rendering.
• But if I use this, I get the classical black-and-white antialiasing which is much uglier.

So this code should be used carefully. I guess it will stop being needed at all when all Linux users have updated to the versions of OpenJDK that handle aliasing well by default.