nice fonts in Java programs

cohesion · n00b Joined: 27 Aug 2002 Posts: 24 Location: KC, MO, USA

Here is the /opt/<sun-j2version>/jre/lib/font.properties for using the nice new Bitstream Vera Fonts for all of the dialogs in your Java applications. Also, due to a bug in java, copy your favorite True Type Fonts from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf|truetype/* to /opt/<sun-j2version>/jre/lib/fonts/ so that the JRE can see them. Enjoy pretty java applets!

Edit: woops! Originally posted the Win32 version! Doh! Here is the corrected version:

Edit #2: woops again! Okay, I'm certain this is the correct one. It works for me. (Sorry!) Enjoy! BTW, this also enables Unicode support that may not have been there before. If you have trouble with certain characters showing up as empty blocks, replace all occurances of 'iso10646' with 'iso8859'.

Chickpea · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 846 Location: Vancouver WA

Cool!! Can't wait to try this.

Cat

cohesion · n00b Joined: 27 Aug 2002 Posts: 24 Location: KC, MO, USA

Since many people use both operating system and you CAN use the Vera fonts in Windows (I love them), here is the same file for Java for Windows:

IWBCMAN · Guru Joined: 25 Jun 2002 Posts: 474

although there is still no anti-aliasing going on-I followed your instructions and all I can say is WOW-massive difference....I really, really like this

I had just downloaded sun-one and netbeans and their IDE's were deplorable, as far as fonts go,I simply have an allergic reaction to standard windows fonts....now everything is clearly legible, I don't need to squint and it looks pretty damned good, if I may say so.

thanks for your effort.....

Lazlo · Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2003 8:22 pm Post subject: Make it part of the ebuild

It does look kinda cool.

It would be cool to have as a part of the gentoo java ebuild.

I get this error though:

pascall · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2003 12:34 pm Post subject:

Small problem here...

here 's what i did (i m using blackdown jdk 1.4.1) :
1. Moved my /opt.../font.properties to font.properties.back
2. Created a new font.properties with the one u r giving
3. copied the ttf files from /usr/share/fonts/ttf-bistream-vera to /opt/.../lib/fonts

Problem is that now, every time I try to start an applet external to the web browser (I mainly use a chat applet that pops in its own window), the java vm seems to stall. I ve looked in the java console and there is no error message at all...

Have I forgotten something ? Do I have to regenerate the fonts.dir files and if so how to do it ?

Thanks for your help,

Pascal

Yuber · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 139

how do you get anti aliasing to work?

karan · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2003 2:32 pm Post subject:

Ahh very cool indeed.

Thanks for the great post.
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warer · n00b Joined: 26 Oct 2002 Posts: 38

OK i have done as described above with blackdown, the fonts changed.
(They didn't get any nicer more like worse in my opinion)
but my java programs still display square og ? for unicode chars.
Any ideas?

diddledan · Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 1:27 pm Post subject:

I can't seem to find Bitstream Vera fonts on my system... Where can I get them from?

warer · n00b Joined: 26 Oct 2002 Posts: 38

emerge ttf-bitstream-vera

diddledan · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 8:41 pm Post subject:

aha, thankoo for that - bitstream fonts now installed :-D