Patch which fixes bug #6703377 (font outline transformation)

[Omair Majid]

On 05/03/2011 05:10 AM, Pavel Tisnovsky wrote:
> 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.
>

Ok. I was mislead because the icedtea patch was (re)using the same bug 
number. I have updated the jdk 6 patch web page [1] to reflect this. Any 
chance you could push this upstream? If this is a problem in IcedTea6, 
it will likely affect IcedTea7 (and IcedTea8 soon).

Thanks,
Omair

http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea_JDK6_Patches