Name: bsC130419 Date: 06/12/2001


java version "1.4.0-beta"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.0-beta-b65)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.0-beta-b65, mixed mode)


1. Run the Stylepad.jar from the JDK1.4 demos, select a line of text that is
writen in sans-serif non-italic font and press the "i" (italic) button. The
height of the line is increased. When reverted back to normal (or bold) style,
line height is restored to normal.

2. the Stylepad from JDK demos

3. na

4. na

5. The problem is with italic & bold-italic variants of Lucida Sans & Lucida
Sans Typewriter fonts bundled with JDK or JRE 1.4. It does not happen with
Lucida Bright fonts. These fonts produce the same problem when tried with
other software (for example Xft renderer for XFree on Linux), so it is
presumably a problem with fonts and not with Java's renderer.
(Review ID: 126355)
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JDk 1.3.1 for Linux shipped versions of the oblique fonts which had
their ascenders and descenders tweaked to be more latin friendly.
Those files did not get brought forward into 1.4.

We will fix that for 1.4.1

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