>>>>> Cynthia Jeness writes:
Cynthia> My only remaining comment is that the names of the java
Cynthia> fonts in the "font.properties" file were changed from
Cynthia> "zapf dingbats" to "dingbats" and from "symbol" to
Cynthia> "standard symbols l". I changed the names back to avoid
Cynthia> the font not found errors on start-up.
The problem is that the URW fonts are available with two different
foundries: urw and abode. The two foundries use different family
names for the fonts too. The reason why we currently use the urw
foundry is that the abode foundry uses ambiguous family names, this
may result in using the symbol fonts from {75,100}dpi instead of the
symbol font from urw, this gives a bad font display.
So the best way to use the urw fonts with the JDK currently is to use
a fonts.dir file with urw foundry and a font.alias file with the adobe
foundry. Doing it vice versa is not possible as the JDK currently
can't deal with font.alias files. [I've attached the fonts.* files
from the Debian gsfonts-x11 package.]
Also, it's advisable to make the fonts available through the Xserver
directly (i.e. do not use a font server for the urw fonts). This
allows the JDK to get direct access to the font files.
Juergen
fonts.dir
fonts.alias
fonts.scale
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Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Team
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