Thanks Phil,
I did wonder whether or not this was going to be positioned as a bug,
particularly given the use of hints.
>From our perspective, we'd like to explore the possibility of getting a fix
>into a future Java 11 version.
A new hint would be fine & we would not require it to work with
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8214481
As you can see from reading there, this isn't really a bug, just a
change in behaviour,
and it is not clear if we want to restore the 8u behaviour.
I think I'd prefer another hint to be created although apps would need
to update
to it and run
Hello all,
We have seen changes in the appearance of text drawn by java.awt.Graphics2D
when *both* fractional metrics and text antialiasing hints are enabled, between
OracleJDK 1.8.0_202 and OpenJDK 11.0.1.
The differences affects text in many fonts and multiple sizes.
In the example given here