Bradley,
this problem was discussed predominantly in the month of
september. I suggest you check the archives on Blackdown.
I was one of the complainers...
gr. Eric
--- Bradley Rosser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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