Showstopper fix for a regression notably affecting Netbeans text rendering. Bug: http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=7183251 Fix has been requested and approved by by 7u6 release team Reviewed by Igor Nekrestyanov and Jennifer Godinez Fix is already in JDK 8 (as well as 6u34) thus this is a back port : http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/2d-dev/2012-July/002658.html Changeset http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/2d/jdk/rev/ab0b2720a756
-phil.