The Batik project (Apache) does text layout where control over individual
glyph placement and rotation is needed, beyond what the TextLayout API gives access to. Using GlyphVector directly is not a workable solution because the
difficult task of layout is left out.
Adding an API to TextLayout to retreive GlyphVectors corresponding to the
layout process result would address the needs of the Batik project and any other project that needs to perform additional layout in addition to what the TextLayout class provides by default.