Supports fonts with Apple Platform Name Tags

Dr Andrew John Hughes ahughes at redhat.com
Tue Jan 11 06:54:48 PST 2011


On 22:41 Tue 11 Jan     , Johnson Lau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Some fonts shipping with Mac, like STHeiti / Hiragino series, contains
> tags with only Mac Platform ID (=1), which causes them wrongly treated
> as invalid format by OpenJDK because OpenJDK recognizes name tags with
> Platform ID of MS_PLATFORM_ID (=3) ONLY currently.
> 
> I added support for MAC_PLATFORM_ID and other possible values to make it
> work in both OpenJDK 6 & 7.
> 
> Also, there is a patch backporting OpenType font support for OpenJDK 6.
> 

If you mean:

changeset:   406:acb763ebef95
user:        prr
date:        Thu May 27 08:53:45 2010 -0700
summary:     6954424: Support OpenType/CFF fonts in JDK 7

it's already in OpenJDK6.

> I post the patches here and hope someone can review them.
> Should I request RFEs in JDK bug database at first?
> 
> Johnson




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