[Westwales] Somewhat newbie-ish Java SDK question

[John Beisley]

I think I had a similar problem once, I think what I did was:

fiddle with the font.properties file (which is under your java main driectory somewhere (do a 'find /path/to/java -name font.properties' :)

find the offending line in the file which will contain:
"-*-standard symbols l-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific"

Then run xfontsel to find a font that x windows does have installed with a similar definition (using * instead of %d of course)

That's my quick and not very clear guide of how I might have solved it. I hope it helps. I'd say more but I'm trying to recover data from a mate's corrupted win xp NTFS partition ;)

- John


On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 15:56:33 -0000 (GMT)
"Jon Pearse" <jnp2@aber.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>   I'm just working through some Java stuff for university which
> involves using Swing and AWT. Fine, having installed it on my Linux
> box, I go to run one of the examples to I can play around with the
> functions. This is the result.
> 
> [jon@setras ex]$ java Simple
> Font specified in font.properties not found [-*-standard symbols
> l-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]
> ^C
> [jon@setras ex]$
> 
>   Fine, I know that I'm missing a font - it's about the only useful
> information pretty much everyone I've asked here at uni has offered
> me. I could poke around the Java documentation or various man pages,
> but I don't really have the time or effort right at the moment to do
> this, and this work needs handing in at some point...
>   Yes, call me lazy, but could someone tell me how to deal with this
> (preferably in short, easy terms...) before I start getting annoyed
> with Java even more than I am currently :)
> 
>   Thanks
> 
> -Jon
>   (in serious need of a few weeks off, a girlfriend, and not having to
> learn Java...)
> 
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