The FontRenderContext class is a container for the
information needed to correctly measure text. The measurement of text
can vary because of rules that map outlines to pixels, and rendering
hints provided by an application.
One such piece of information is a transform that scales
typographical points to pixels. (A point is defined to be exactly 1/72
of an inch, which is slightly different than
the traditional mechanical measurement of a point.) A character that
is rendered at 12pt on a 600dpi device might have a different size
than the same character rendered at 12pt on a 72dpi device because of
such factors as rounding to pixel boundaries and hints that the font
designer may have specified.
Anti-aliasing and Fractional-metrics specified by an application can also
affect the size of a character because of rounding to pixel
boundaries.
Typically, instances of FontRenderContext are
obtained from a {@link java.awt.Graphics2D Graphics2D} object. A
FontRenderContext which is directly constructed will
most likely not represent any actual graphics device, and may lead
to unexpected or incorrect results.
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