[fedora-java] Fonts hinting

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 11:40 Fri 26 Nov     , Mario Torre wrote:
> Is there anything changed in the way OpenJDK handles fonts in the latest
> fedora?
> 
> I update the system:
> 
> java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-43.1.8.2.fc13.x86_64
> 
> And now my nice antialiased fonts are gone. I do have freetype with the
> patented hinting enabled (and the patent *is* expired), but it looks
> like the setting is not picked up by OpenJDK.
> 
> I thought we used the system freetype.
> 
> Setting awt.useSystemAAFontSettings="lcd_hrgb" also doesn't change
> anything, so I think something broke.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mario
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1.8.2 is quite an old release now:

New in release 1.8.2 (2010-10-13):

* Security updates
  - S6914943, CVE-2009-3555: TLS: MITM attacks via session renegotiation 
  - S6559775, CVE-2010-3568: OpenJDK Deserialization Race condition
  - S6891766, CVE-2010-3554: OpenJDK corba reflection vulnerabilities
  - S6925710, CVE-2010-3562: OpenJDK IndexColorModel double-free
  - S6938813, CVE-2010-3557: OpenJDK Swing mutable static
  - S6957564, CVE-2010-3548: OpenJDK DNS server IP address information leak
  - S6958060, CVE-2010-3564: OpenJDK kerberos vulnerability
  - S6963023, CVE-2010-3565: OpenJDK JPEG writeImage remote code execution
  - S6963489, CVE-2010-3566: OpenJDK ICC Profile remote code execution
  - S6966692, CVE-2010-3569: OpenJDK Serialization inconsistencies
  - S6622002, CVE-2010-3553: UIDefault.ProxyLazyValue has unsafe reflection usage
  - S6925672, CVE-2010-3561: Privileged ServerSocket.accept allows receiving connections from any host
  - S6952017, CVE-2010-3549: HttpURLConnection chunked encoding issue (Http request splitting)
  - S6952603, CVE-2010-3551: NetworkInterface reveals local network address to untrusted code
  - S6961084, CVE-2010-3541: limit setting of some request headers in HttpURLConnection
  - S6963285, CVE-2010-3567: Crash in ICU Opentype layout engine due to mismatch in character counts
  - S6980004, CVE-2010-3573: limit HTTP request cookie headers in HttpURLConnection
  - S6981426, CVE-2010-3574: limit use of TRACE method in HttpURLConnection
  - S6990437: Update with correct copyright info for source and test files from SSR10_02 fixes
* Fixes:
  - G244901: Skip test_gamma on hardened (PaX-enabled) kernels
  - G266295: Provide font configuration for Gentoo.
  - Provide font configuration for RHEL 6.
  - RH633510: OpenJDK should use NUMA even if glibc doesn't provide it
* Backports:
  - S6951319: enable solaris builds using Sun Studio 12 update 1 (fixes PR398)
  - S6539464, RH500077: Ensure java.lang.Math functions provide consistent results.
  - S6638712: Inference with wildcard types causes selection of inapplicable method
  - S6650759: Inference of formal type parameter (unused in formal parameters) is not performed
  - S6623943: javax.swing.TimerQueue's thread occasionally fails to start
* NetX:
  - Fix browser command in BasicService.showDocument(URL)
  - Run programs that inherit main(String[]) in their main-class
  - Run JNLP files that use 1.6 as the spec version
  - RH601281: Possible NullPointerException in splash screen code
  - New man page for javaws
* Plugin 
  - RH560193: Fix zip error when applet jar contained another 0-byte jar
  - PR519: 100% CPU usage when displaying applets in Webkit based browsers

You could try using strace on a small AWT app to see if the right fontconfig.properties is being
picked up.  Maybe the Gentoo or RHEL additions broke something?  Strange it hasn't been reported
before if so.
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Andrew :)

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