Re: Failure to find any font (probably on Embedded)

2014-02-13 Thread Phil Race
I agree that embeded is the only place it should happen. On a Linux desktop system if fontconfig isn't there then likely your entire desktop is DOA. And embedded is likely to be an integrated h/w s/w stack so I would expect that this would not be a common end-user problem ... -phil. On

Re: Failure to find any font (probably on Embedded)

2014-02-12 Thread Kevin Rushforth
A more informative message and an earlier detection both sound good. Not sure about the pointer to the Wiki page, though. We haven't done that in the past that I am aware of. If we do want to go down that path, I would suggest a pointer to a single, well-known support page that could describe

Re: Failure to find any font (probably on Embedded)

2014-02-12 Thread Stephen F Northover
Embedding URL's in code ... a recipe for stale URL's. I suppose that we put URL's in JavaDoc though. Steve On 2014-02-12 1:53 PM, Kevin Rushforth wrote: A more informative message and an earlier detection both sound good. Not sure about the pointer to the Wiki page, though. We haven't done

Re: Failure to find any font (probably on Embedded)

2014-02-12 Thread Daniel Blaukopf
Unless someone has removed font files from the Java directory tree - in which case all bets are off - this won’t happen with the JRE or JDK for any platform. It will only happen with Java SE Embedded Compact Profiles. So referring them to “the release notes for Java SE Embedded” seems

Re: Failure to find any font (probably on Embedded)

2014-02-12 Thread Kevin Rushforth
Embedding URL's in code ... a recipe for stale URL's. Yeah, that's why I'm not sure I like it... -- Kevin Stephen F Northover wrote: Embedding URL's in code ... a recipe for stale URL's. I suppose that we put URL's in JavaDoc though. Steve On 2014-02-12 1:53 PM, Kevin Rushforth wrote: A