I am running JDK 1.2.2 on RedHat Linux 6.1. My font path (as provided
by chkfontpath --list) includes among others:
/usr/X11R6/lib/fonts/URW
These are the fonts that I downloaded from the gimp site.
These fonts include "-Adobe-Zapf Dingbats-..."
When I run the SwingSet application, I get the message that it is
unable to find "--dingbats-..." which is listed in the font properties.
Under the previous JDK1.2, I had gotten rid of this error message, by
actually copying my URW fonts under the "jre/lib/fonts" and amending the
"fonts.dir" file to include them. Should this have been necessary?
Should java be able to find the fonts in the X font path? Now, however,
even this technique does not work. Is this because the name has changed
in the font.properties file from "--zapf dingbats-" to "--dingbats"?
My XF86Config has the following line with regard to fonts:
FontPath "unix/:-11"
and I am running the "xfs" file server supplied by RedHat.
I realize that the messages are harmless; however, I would like to
understand how to deal with fonts under the JDK for Linux.
I did read the "README.LINUX" that was supplied with the JDK. I also
searched the RedHat site for any information that I could find on
fonts. I even dug out my old X11 book and re-read the section on
fonts. But so far, nothing has worked. So I would greatly appreciate
some guidance again.
Thanks,
Cynthia Jeness
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