Based on my experience, there are really several issues
1. You man not have a "dingbats" font. In which case, you can download the URW
fonts and get the "Zapf Dingbats" font and install it on your system following
directions that are appropriate for you Linux distribution and implementation.
2. The name of the font in the font.properties file is "dingbats" and not "zapf
dingbats" as it was in the preview version of 1.2. So you will have to change the
name from "dingbats" to "zapf dingbats" in the properties file in order to make
the
URW dingbats recognized.
3. The name of the symbol font was also changed from "symbol" to "standard
symbols l". I had to change the name back to "symbol".
The font.properities.tt is provided if you want to use the True Type fonts rather
than the Lucida fonts that Sun provides with their JDK. I assume that the True
Type fonts look somewhat better. So if these fonts are already available on your
system, you can rename font.properties.tt to font.properties.
On other point that I discovered about fonts and Java. the "jre/lib/fonts"
directory in your JDK distribution contains the Lucida fonts. Java automatically
searches this location for fonts. I assume first, but I am not sure. So if you
copy fonts here and update the fonts.dir file, then your Java programs will have
access to these fonts regardless of whether they are part of your font path. Of
course, if you want other X applications to have access to these fonts, you will
need to add the directory to your font path. Sun's design point, according to the
documentation on their site, was to include a set of fonts that would be used
across all platforms and, thus, make the appearance of Swing applications even
more consistent across platforms.
Cynthia Jeness
Bob Love wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I have Slackware 7.0 and installed jdk-1_2_2-RC3-linux-i386.sh and
> > jdk-1_2_2-RC3-linux-i386.sh. When I start "java -jar Notepad.jar", I receive
> > the message from font.Properties that the dingbat font is not found. I have
> > font.Properties and font.Properties.tt. How do I fix this message?
> >
> Check out the following link:
> http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/jdk1.2-status/known-bugs.html
>
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