Font display under Linux with Java Runtime

[James McDonald]

Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:

>James,
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>>I am using Linux Fedora Core 1 with Mozilla 1.4.1 and 
>>j2re-1.4.2_03-fcs
>>with a java based internet banking package.
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>>I am suffering from a font misalignment in the text boxes as 
>>shown here
>>http://www.jamesmcdonald.id.au/tmp/java-error.png. It appears 
>>as if the 
>>font is either too large for the text field or misaligned which makes 
>>the application almost unuseable under linux.
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>>Can any of you erstwhile list users point me in the direction of a 
>>fix/workaround? (i.e. is there some sort of jre parameters to 
>>fix it, I 
>>am NOT a java user in general)
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>There are several possible solutions if you were working with the code:
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Sadly no I'm not it's a live bank site

>Now, if you are not working with the code, the most probable cause is that
>the specific font used in this box is not available to your JRE.  In that
>case it will use a default font type and size.  To fix this you need to
>install it where the JRE expects to find fonts, or to point the JRE font
>path to where the font is (if it is already on your machine).
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Which raises the question. How would I find out what font this internet 
application wants to use and how would I then put it in the right spot? 
I know about $JAVA_HOME/lib/font.properties but have no idea what to 
edit to get it to point to using a "windows" font(which I am assuming is 
what the jre needs instead of the default font it's probably using now)