Bradley,
This has been discussed several times on the group, I run RedHat 6.0 and had
the same problem. The following solution worked best for me:
from Michael E. Shorter on September 27, 1999: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I just installed the zapf dingbats fonts with now problems. Here's what I
did:
Downloaded the fonts from the www.gimp.org site.
I unpacked the archive in JDK fonts directory (/opt/jdk1.2/jre/lib/fonts
on my machine).
Then I edited the fonts.dir file located there, and appended the fonts.dir
file from the URW directory that was created unpacking the archive.
I then deleted the "35" that was inserted after the original list of
fonts, and changed the "12" to "47" at the beginning of the file.
Hope that helps...
Mike
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I would assume that they will fix this problem in future releases of the JDK.
With regard to the Swing issue, it would seem that merging two different
releases would be a non-trivial undertaking.
I was just working on the latest beta for JavaHelp in preparation for some
talks I am giving at the Software Summit. Based on my experiments with this
product, printing does not work very well under 1.2. According to the JavaHelp
group, these problems will be fixed in 1.3. So I am also curious about how a
1.3 port fits into the Linux plans.
Cynthia Jeness
Bradley Rosser wrote:
> Hi. I've recently installed the Blackdown 1.2 pre-v2 JDK and
> everything works fine except, when running a java program, a heap
> of "can't find font" messages popped up such as this:
>
> "Font specified in font.properties not found
> [--zapf
> dingbats-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]"
>
> I commented out all 'dingbat' references in the font.properties
> file and that seems to have fixed the problem, but I just wanted
> to ask if there was a better solution (just 'chopping out' the
> fontname-dash-2 series of definitions in font.properties seemed to
> be a bit crude).
>
> I'm running fvwm2 with Linux 2.2.12 and XFree86 (I don't have the
> version of XFree with me right now, but it's one of the most
> recent - came with my Slakware 4.0 distribution of the 2.2.7 kernel).
>
> Do other linux distributions have these 'dingbat' fonts? Should
> I acquire them (somehow), or otherwise fix things up a bit more
> elegantly?
>
> As a newcomer to Java on Linux, may I ask if anyone can give me
> an idea as to when 1.3 is likely to be out? I had a number of
> Swing bugs in 1.2 (developing on NT) which were fixed when I went
> to the recent 1.3beta for NT. I don't know anything about
> java implementations; can I try and merge the Swing java source
> from 1.3 into my blackdown 1.2preV2 installation or are more
> complicated porting methods required?
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Brad Rosser
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