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I submitted another version of this question and a sample program before: How do I get consistent rendering when scaling a JTextPane?

Recapitulating the problem: I would like to allow users to zoom into or out of a non-editable JTextPane. Running the example program submitted in the earlier question, which simply scaled the Graphics object, resulted in inconsistent spacing between runs of bold text and non-bold text.

The sample program below attempts to solve the problem by drawing the text pane to a BufferedImage at 100% and then scaling the image. This solves the problem of inconsistent spacing but the resulting text lacks crispness. Is there some combination of rendering hints (or some other change) that will result in nice crisp text?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions or comments on the feasibility of this approach.

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.GridBagConstraints;
import java.awt.GridBagLayout;
import java.awt.RenderingHints;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;

import javax.swing.Box;
import javax.swing.JComboBox;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JTextPane;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
import javax.swing.text.BadLocationException;
import javax.swing.text.Style;
import javax.swing.text.StyleConstants;
import javax.swing.text.StyleContext;
import javax.swing.text.StyledDocument;

public class ScaledJTextPane extends JTextPane
{
    double scale_;
    BufferedImage raster_;

    public ScaledJTextPane()
    {
        scale_ = 1.0;
        raster_ = null;
    }

    public void draw(Graphics g)
    {
        if (raster_ == null)
        {
            // Draw this text pane to a BufferedImage at 100%
            raster_ = new BufferedImage(getWidth(), getHeight(), BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
            Graphics2D g2 = raster_.createGraphics();
            g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_FRACTIONALMETRICS, RenderingHints.VALUE_FRACTIONALMETRICS_OFF);

            paint(g2);
        }

        Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;

        // Experiment with different rendering hints
        g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
        g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_FRACTIONALMETRICS,
                RenderingHints.VALUE_FRACTIONALMETRICS_ON);
        g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_RENDERING,
                RenderingHints.VALUE_RENDER_QUALITY);

        // Scale the BufferedImage            
        g2.scale(scale_, scale_);
        g2.drawImage(raster_, 0, 0, null);
    }

    public void setScale(double scale)
    {
        scale_ = scale;
        raster_ = null;
    }

    private static void createAndShowGUI() 
    {
        // Create and set up the window.
        JFrame frame = new JFrame("ScaledJTextPane using BufferedImage");
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

        final ScaledJTextPane scaledTextPane = new ScaledJTextPane();
        StyledDocument doc = scaledTextPane.getStyledDocument();
        Style defaultStyle = StyleContext.getDefaultStyleContext().getStyle(StyleContext.DEFAULT_STYLE);
        Style boldStyle = doc.addStyle("bold", defaultStyle);
        StyleConstants.setBold(boldStyle, true);

        scaledTextPane.setFont(new Font("Dialog", Font.PLAIN, 14));
        String boldText = "Four score and seven years ago ";
        String plainText = "our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.";
        try 
        {
            doc.insertString(doc.getLength(), boldText, boldStyle);
            doc.insertString(doc.getLength(), plainText, defaultStyle);
        } 
        catch (BadLocationException ble) 
        {
            System.err.println("Couldn't insert text into text pane.");
        }

        final JComboBox zoomCombo=new JComboBox(new String[] {"75%",
                "100%", "150%", "175%", "200%"});
        final JPanel panel = new JPanel()
        {
            protected void paintComponent(Graphics g)
            {
                super.paintComponent(g);
                scaledTextPane.draw(g);
            }
        };
        zoomCombo.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                String s = (String) zoomCombo.getSelectedItem();
                s = s.substring(0, s.length() - 1);
                double scale = new Double(s).doubleValue() / 100;
                scaledTextPane.setScale(scale);
                panel.invalidate();
                panel.repaint();
            }
        });
        zoomCombo.setSelectedItem("100%");

        JPanel optionsPanel = new JPanel(new GridBagLayout());
        GridBagConstraints c = new GridBagConstraints();

        c.gridx = 0;
        c.gridy = 0;
        c.anchor = GridBagConstraints.WEST;

        optionsPanel.add(zoomCombo, c);

        c.gridx++;
        c.weightx = 1;
        c.fill = GridBagConstraints.HORIZONTAL;
        optionsPanel.add(Box.createHorizontalGlue(), c);

        // Add content to the window.
        scaledTextPane.setBounds(0, 0, 450, 300);
        panel.setOpaque(true);
        panel.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
        frame.getContentPane().add(panel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        frame.getContentPane().add(optionsPanel, BorderLayout.NORTH);
        frame.setSize(900, 300);

        //Display the window.
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() 
        {
            public void run() 
            {
                createAndShowGUI();
            }
        });
    }
}