--- a/src/share/classes/java/awt/Font.java	Wed Aug 04 00:07:49 2010 +0100
+++ b/src/share/classes/java/awt/Font.java	Thu May 27 08:53:45 2010 -0700
@@ -325,6 +325,10 @@ public class Font implements java.io.Ser
      * Identify a font resource of type TRUETYPE.
      * Used to specify a TrueType font resource to the
      * {@link #createFont} method.
+     * The TrueType format was extended to become the OpenType
+     * format, which adds support for fonts with Postscript outlines,
+     * this tag therefore references these fonts, as well as those
+     * with TrueType outlines.
      * @since 1.3
      */