Includes information on the dreaded Font.properties file. Charles Poynton's A Technical Introduction to Digital Video covers a variety of analog and digital video topics. It includes a very good chapter on signal filtering and sampling, which gives in-depth information on aliasing effects. This javadoc-generated documentation is updated with each new release of the Java 1.2 platform. This article discusses the producer-consumer model from Java 1.0 and 1.1 in more depth.
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Provides a good comparison of JDK 1.0 and 1.1's Push Model supported by ImageProducers and ImageConsumers to the Immediate Mode image buffer model supported by Java 2D BufferedImages and the Pull Model to be supported by Java 2D and Java Advanced Imaging. This session can show you how all three models fit together and what trade-offs you should consider when you decide which to use. Gives a good explanation of how difficult color management is in general, then goes on to explain how Java 2D provides a uniform way to manage color spaces for display as well as hard copy output. It contains a list of the types of color spaces supported in the JDK 1.2. If you are having problems and are beginning to wonder if you might have a Java 2D bug on your hands, you can search the Java bug database at Sun.