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mkm
Asked: 2011-01-21 09:20:17 +0800 CST

Not all TTF fonts visible from the (Sun) JDK

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I wanted to use Monaco.ttf with IntelliJ. Unfortunately it doesn't show up.

I also noticed that the Monaco font doesn't appear in the list of fonts got from awt:

java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment().getAvailableFontFamilyNames()

I installed Monaco.ttf in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/osx

I also tried to copy it in /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/fonts and even tried to manually update the /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/fonts/fonts.dir file

I restarted the jvm at each try, but the fonts is not visible from the sun jdk.

All other applications see that font (even eclipse, which is in java but uses the SWT library)

Does anybody know how to make jdk see additional fonts?

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4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The problem is with the Monaco font itself, it doesn't seem to have appropriate metadata and is a hacky port, so Java doesn't recognize it. Probably you can find some other version of this TTF file which will work better or try to fix it yourself using FontForge.

    See also my comment in the IntelliJ IDEA issue tracker.

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  2. You need to run the mkfontscale and mkfontdir utilities in this order, in order to update the fonts.dir file.

    Enter the /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/fonts directory from your terminal and run

    sudo mkfontscale
sudo mkfontdir

    mkfontscale creates the fonts.scale file which mkfontdir can use to create fonts.dir.

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  3. Update your font cache

    sudo fc-cache -f -v
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  4. Have you tried calling:

    java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.getAllFonts()

    It seems that the Java font system is kinda messed up:

    http://www.sabi.co.uk/Notes/linuxFonts.html#fontSwJava

    You may have to work around issues with finding the fonts. But if eclipse can see the font, then there is no reason why your application can not. You can even choose to look at the eclipse code to see how they've done it.

    http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/2D/reference/faqs/#Font_and_Text_questions

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