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		vaibhavkul on July 18, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The new TrueType interpreter in FreeType 2.7.0 Does this mean that now Java-based GUI software (e.g. Android Studio) run using OpenJDK will display much better fonts?

kasabali on July 18, 2016 [–]

No, not at all. The problem was never on FreeType side, it was always on Java side.

Recent versions of IntelliJ are bundled with a patched version of OpenJDK though, so that particular case should not be a problem anymore.

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