Yeah, I tried it, but still the problem persists. The error is "font
specified in font.properties not found".
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----- Original Message -----
From: Babu Kalakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 8:44 PM
Subject: Re: [LIH] Fonts
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 02:01:43PM +0530, V Suresh typed:
> > when running Java programs(Swing, Frames etc), a few lines of errors
> > regarding Font not found is displayed, and then the program works. There
is
> > no problem with the Program output, just the error messages regarding
fonts.
> > How should I correct this?
>
> Try to find a symbol.ttf file from a Windows distribution if you have
> one and copy it to the jre/lib/fonts directory in your JDK distribution
> path (Apparently this font file is freely downloadable from somewhere in
> Microsoft's website - but I don't know the URL ).
>
> Now edit the fonts.dir file in that directory to add the following line :
>
> symbol.ttf -urw-symbol-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
>
> Also increment the number on line 1 of the fonts.dir file (indicates the
> number of font lines present in the file) and write back. (On the
> Blackdown 1.3.0 JDK & Sun's 1.3.0_1 JDKs this number was 12 which I had
> to change to 13 - Not sure about 1.2.2)
>
> This should take care of the error messages.
>
> Kala
>
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