JDK-1233833 : Want access to arbitrary fonts
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: client-libs
  • Sub-Component: 2d
  • Affected Version: 1.0
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • OS: windows_95
  • CPU: x86
  • Submitted: 1996-01-10
  • Updated: 1999-01-14
  • Resolved: 1999-01-14
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1.2.0 1.2beta4Fixed
Related Reports
Relates :  
JDK-4130437 - Font cleanup
Description
Customer (FutureTense) product needs to be able to access wide variety of fonts
on the system.  Currently, the runtime matches any provided font name against
one of a handful of well-known fonts; anything else is mapped into a Helvetica-like
font.

This limitation makes it impossible to do any kind of sophisticated document
authoring and/or viewing in a Java applet.

Customer has been working around this problem with sources to the runtime by 
allowing the system (win32) to check for existance of named font before defaulting,
but this is obviously not a viable solution for their final product.
Comments
CONVERTED DATA BugTraq+ Release Management Values COMMIT TO FIX: 1.2beta4 FIXED IN: 1.2beta4 INTEGRATED IN: 1.2beta4
14-06-2004
PUBLIC COMMENTS implementation available. use GraphicsEnvironment.getAllFonts() paul.charlton@eng 1998-05-06
06-05-1998
EVALUATION [jim.graham@Eng 1997-04-22] This problem will finally be addressed in the Java 2D API and implementation. ================================= implementation available. use GraphicsEnvironment.getAllFonts() paul.charlton@eng 1998-05-06
06-05-1998