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Hi Paul,

> When I move it to Mandrake Linux 7.x I get the following error when
> I try to run the program:
>
> Font specified in font.properties not found
> [--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]
>
> No matter what I change the fonts to, in the program, I still get the
> message.
>
> Any ideas?

Fortunately, I just looked around in this group since I also have this
problem with RedHat 6. This problem is very simple and I have found a
solution to it:

Java 2 expects a scalable font to display ZapfDingbats and Symbol
typefaces. However, standard X11 Symbol fonts supplied by RedHat is
pixel-based only. But you can still change the behavior of Java 2 to use
the equivalent URW Type 1 fonts supplied by RedHat. You have to edit the
file jdk1.2.2/jre/lib/font.properties and replace every *.2 line (this
is the last line in each definition block) to use URW Standard Symbols
L. For example, my first block looks like:

serif.0=-b&h-lucidabright-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
serif.1=-b&h-lucidabright-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
#replace .1 font line if you have zapf fonts
serif.1=-urw-dingbats-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-urw-fontspecific
serif.2=-urw-standard symbols
l-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-urw-fontspecific

Same applies to other blocks. (beware that one line break may be
introduced in the last line by the newsgroup reader). Since with the URW
Dingbats, you also have a substitution for ZapfDingbats, you can also do
the change in the respective lines and uncomment them. It is preferable
to open font.properties with an editor and replace every occurence of
use of Symbol to URW Standard Symbols L by search and replace.

I hope that the above description should be sufficent to make it
running.

Regards,

Yue Shi Lai


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