Patch which fixes bug #6703377 (font outline transformation)

[Pavel Tisnovsky]

Omair Majid wrote:
> On 10/15/2010 11:07 AM, Pavel Tisnovsky wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I prepared yet another patch for IcedTea6 HEAD. This patch refine
>> computation of x and y coordinates during font outline transformation
>> when negative values are used
>> (see http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6703377)
>>
>> Attached files:
>>
>> 6703377-freetypescaler.patch - the patch itself
>> hg_export_icedtea6.diff - changes I would like to make in IcedTea
>>
>> Correct behaviour of outline transformation is (partially) checked by
>> regression test:
>> java/awt/font/Rotate/TranslatedOutlineTest.java
>>
>> Can anyone please review this patch?
> 
> Upstream has resolved this bug using another method:
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/2d/jdk/rev/7fba83f5f5e0
> 
> Is your patch fixing the exact same problem? Do you think it might be
> worth it to switch to upstream's fix?
> 
> Thanks,
> Omair

Hi Omair,

AFAIK the upstream patch you mentioned is already included in IcedTea6,
but it is itself does not sufficient to resolve this bug when negative
coordinates are used.

Pavel