Can't get affine transforms do anything on an AttributedString

Question

Hello,
I'm trying to transform individual characters in an AttributedString using the respective attribute, but nothing happens as though the transforms simply were ignored by the renderer. Other attributes like underline and strikethrough work fine, however. Am I missing something?
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.font.*;
import java.text.*;
import java.applet.Applet;
import java.awt.geom.*;
public class test4 extends Applet {
     public void paint(Graphics g) {
          Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
          String s = "abc";
          Font f = new Font("Times New Roman", Font.PLAIN, 24);
          AttributedString as = new AttributedString(s);
          as.addAttribute(TextAttribute.FONT, f);
          as.addAttribute(TextAttribute.UNDERLINE, TextAttribute.UNDERLINE_ON, 0,
                    1);
          as.addAttribute(TextAttribute.TRANSFORM, new TransformAttribute(
                    AffineTransform.getScaleInstance(0.5, 3)), 1,3);
          g2.drawString(as.getIterator(new
                    TextAttribute[]{TextAttribute.TRANSFORM,TextAttribute.UNDERLINE}),30,40);
}

Answer 1

Hi,
I'm not sure why the code you have does not work but a quick search for bugs revealed that there are some outstanding issues relating to AttributedString. It may be worth looking into a little more.
The following code seems to get the desired result if it helps:
String s = "abc";
Font f = new Font("Times New Roman", Font.PLAIN, 24);
AttributedString as = new AttributedString(s);
as.addAttribute(TextAttribute.FONT, f);
as.addAttribute(TextAttribute.UNDERLINE, TextAttribute.UNDERLINE_ON, 0, 1);
AffineTransform transform = AffineTransform.getScaleInstance(0.5, 3);
f = f.deriveFont(transform);
as.addAttribute(TextAttribute.FONT, f, 1, 3);
g2.drawString(as.getIterator(), 30, 100);