Hi Phil,
Thanks for the detailed evaluation in bug and here.
Change looks good to me.
Newly added file has copyright year 2018. Please update it before pushing.
I ran smaller set of rotate tests for font and they all pass with this change.
Does this new change handle non-bold use cases also as
Bug : https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8233006
Webrev : http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~prr/8233006
The bug here is that the freetype function for synthesising bold is not
ready to handle rotation.
In the process I noticed it did not adjust the advance used by the
fractional metrics
