Font display under Linux with Java Runtime

[Condon Thomas A KPWA]

> From: Net Llama! [mailto:netllama at linux-sxs.org] 
> 
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, James McDonald wrote:
> > Not until you mentioned it, but after putting the font size down to
> > lower size in mozilla it appears that the java applet doesn't take
> > settings from mozilla.
> >
> > I think I need to find out how the system jre specifies 
> default fonts
> > and then how to change it to something smaller.
> >
> > I have had this problem several times with java applets and 
> always just
> > accepted the bad rendering of fonts in text boxes and list 
> boxes etc but
> > now think it's just a configuration issue...
> >
> > after all it's open source I should have the power to change it.
> 
> Java isn't open source.  As recently as last week Sun refused 
> to open the
> souce.

There is a darn good chance that it isn't really a Java program.  That it
was written with a M$ tool that creates something they have had to call J++
because it *ISN'T* Java.  And as such won't necessarily be adjustable via
the usual methods (like making the browser font smaller).

Sorry if you've all heard this before, but they never stick with their own
standards over in Redmond.  I like light text on a black background, but if
you set things up like that (they even have some setups like that defined)
you won't be able to use their applications, because there are some buttons
that have hard coded the font to be black.  It wouldn't surprise me at all
if you found font problems because they offer fonts that are non-standard
and not readily available on Linux in the tool that created this app.

As to how to find out what the font selected is, I'm uncertain that the
information is available.  I got an error message on my RH laptops when I
ran a program that used a font I didn't have available.  If you don't have
access to the error messages, I don't know how you would find out, other
than writing or calling the maker of the software.


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