[Bug 1799014] [NEW] bold font rendeing in Java is broken in Cosmic with OpenJDK 11

[Václav Haisman]

Public bug reported:

Since update to Cosmic, I see that bold fonts in Java have broken
rendering. See attached 400% scaled PNG for illustration. The 'r' in
bold rendering of "Hello World" shows basically a vertical line from the
end of the hook end. I am not entirely sure this is freetype issue but
some sources (https://github.com/adobe/brackets/issues/14290) suggest
there is a bug in the 2.8.1 version that Cosmic seems to install
(libfreetype6/cosmic,now 2.8.1-2ubuntu2 amd64 [installed]).

** Affects: freetype (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: cosmic

** Attachment added: "java-bold-font-rendering.scaled400.png"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1799014/+attachment/5203459/+files/java-bold-font-rendering.scaled400.png

** Tags added: cosmic

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Title:
  bold font rendeing in Java is broken in Cosmic with OpenJDK 11

Status in freetype package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Since update to Cosmic, I see that bold fonts in Java have broken
  rendering. See attached 400% scaled PNG for illustration. The 'r' in
  bold rendering of "Hello World" shows basically a vertical line from
  the end of the hook end. I am not entirely sure this is freetype issue
  but some sources (https://github.com/adobe/brackets/issues/14290)
  suggest there is a bug in the 2.8.1 version that Cosmic seems to
  install (libfreetype6/cosmic,now 2.8.1-2ubuntu2 amd64 [installed]).

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