Title: RE :Font question (Dimiceli, John - OSHA - CTR)

Re-capping topic #13 (quoted below), my PDF does not work when deployed to a Solaris machine.  I receive the message...

        "Helvetica-Bold not found as resource. (The *.afm files must exist as resources in the package com.lowagie.text.pdf.fonts)"

During troubleshooting I've discovered that all the fonts referenced in the program produce the same error, not just Helvetica-Bold which leads me to think the problem is NOT with Helvetica-Bold, it's something more generic.

Looking at the iText source code in the FontFactory, BaseFont, and Type1Font classes, iText appears to retrieve the font file through the BaseFont.getResourceStream method which uses a Context Class Loader to get the afm font file.  The directory location of the afm font file appears to be hardcoded to the "/fonts" directory.

This seems to work OK on my local machine but bombs upon deployment to my UNIX box. I have verified the existence of the afm font files in the standard Solaris location,

        "usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/afm".

Do I need to change the BaseFont.RESOURCE_PATH value ("/fonts") which reflects the location of the fonts and re-compile, or should I deploy the iText jar in addition to my own programs?  Or have I mis-diagnosed the problem?

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Message: 13
From: "Dimiceli, John - OSHA - CTR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:44:23 -0400
Subject: [iText-questions] Font question

I get this message when deploying to one location, but in other locations it
works fine:
Helvetica-Bold not found as resource. (The *.afm files must exist as
resources in the package com.lowagie.text.pdf.fonts)

Does anyone know how to fix?
John

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