Rendering Hints

In the preceding sections you have seen that the rendering process is quite complex. Though the Java 2D API is surprisingly fast in most cases, there are cases when you would like to have control over trade-offs between speed and quality. You achieve this by setting rendering hints. The setRenderingHint method of the Graphics2D class lets you set a single hint. The hint keys and values are declared in the RenderingHints class. Table 7-2 summarizes the choices.

Table 7-2. Rendering Hints
KeyValuesExplanation
KEY_ANTIALIASING 
VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON
VALUE_ANTIALIAS_OFF
VALUE_ANTIALIAS_DEFAULT
Turn antialiasing for shapes on or off.
KEY_RENDERING 
VALUE_RENDER_QUALITY
VALUE_RENDER_SPEED
VALUE_RENDER_DEFAULT
When available, select rendering ...

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