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inconsistent font ascents

hallo,

i'm having a graphics problem ; on a panther / java 1.4 machine (where i developed originally), text is displayed about 2 pixels below the same display on tiger / java 1.5 . at first i thought it was a bug in my code when calculating the y coordinate using fontMetrics.getAscent() . but as you can see in the screenshots, this vertical shift also applies to regular gadgets like JTextField and JLabel (the "markers" text on the top left is a JLabel) ... it looks particularly bad with custom gadgets where text placement is critical like the green-background marker in the screenshot. interestingly, the labelling of the axis seems to be the same ... i looked in the code, and yes, there is a difference : in the axis i use (for whatever reason ;-) fm.getMaxDescent() instead of dealing with the ascent.

i'm using Helvetica plain and Helvetica italic. Is this a bug in java or did apple silently change the fonts in an inconsistent way? i don't want to change all my code depending on whether i'm on the one or other system. will this get fixed?

thanks + best, -sciss-

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