<Swing Dev> 8166034: [macosx] The bold style is not be set to text with the Motif LAF

[Philip Race]

I think this is the wrong fix. It does not address the actual issue
and will change behaviour on all platforms.

The actual issue is that on MacOSX, non-antialiased fonts are
not being algorithmically bolded or obliqued.

You can see this just by running Font2DTest and selecting Serif + Bold
If you toggle between the DEFAULT and ON settings for Antialiasing
you will see what I mean.

So in other words we have (apparently) a combination of
the font used for Serif on OS X does not come in a BOLD face
together with the CoreText behaviour of not bolding non-AA fonts.

This isn't a TCK issue and isn't anything to do with the Motif L&F.
Which BTW is using non-AA fonts because that is how Motif looks.

So this should be recategorised as 2D and the description changed
to match the problem and the TCK labels removed .. no spec. can
guarantee that fonts are available or impose that you have to be
able to synthesise fonts. There are ample precedents for this in
other cases where (eg) Serif and Monospaced can even be the same
font .. and monospaced isn't actually monospaced for all code points
(in some scripts its nonsense anyway)

-phil.


On 10/5/16, 3:04 AM, Avik Niyogi wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Kindly review the proposed fix for JDK9.
>
> *Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8166034*
> *
> *
> *Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aniyogi/8166034/webrev.00/ 
> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Eaniyogi/8166034/webrev.00/>*
> *
> *
> *Issue: *The Bold Font style was not getting applied to JTextPane
>
> *Cause: *The Serif font were not getting the Bold Font Style
>
> *Fix: *Compatible font family which is used by Motif Look And Feel was 
> used.
>
> With Regards,
> Avik Niyogi
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