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Java Forum / General / May 2006Java cannot recognise some fonts
I installed a few Helvetica Neue fonts on my PC running Windows XP, JavaRE 1.5.0_06. My code is trying to get the text height according to the font. However I got hight=0 only for some fonts. //output********************************************************************* font=java.awt.Font[family=HelveticaNeue LT 55 Roman,name=HelveticaNeue LT 55 Roman,style=plain,size=11]ascent=9, descent=2, height=12] sun.font.FontDesignMetrics[font=java.awt.Font[family=HelveticaNeue LT 55 Roman,name=HelveticaNeue LT 55 Roman,style=bold,size=11]ascent=0, descent=0, height=0] sun.font.FontDesignMetrics[font=java.awt.Font[family=HelveticaNeue LT 57 Cn,name=HelveticaNeue LT 57 Cn,style=plain,size=11]ascent=11, descent=3, height=14] sun.font.FontDesignMetrics[font=java.awt.Font[family=HelveticaNeue LT 57 Cn,name=HelveticaNeue LT 57 Cn,style=bold,size=11]ascent=11, descent=3, height=14] sun.font.FontDesignMetrics[font=java.awt.Font[family=HelveticaNeue LT 65 Medium,name=HelveticaNeue LT 65 Medium,style=plain,size=11]ascent=0, descent=0, height=0] sun.font.FontDesignMetrics[font=java.awt.Font[family=HelveticaNeue LT 65 Medium,name=HelveticaNeue LT 65 Medium,style=bold,size=11]ascent=0, descent=0, height=0] //output********************************************************************* The interesting thing is for the same font HelveticaNeue LT 55 Roman, when the style is plain, the height is 12, but when the style is bold, the height is 0. Any thoughts or suggestions? > I installed a few Helvetica Neue fonts on my PC running Windows XP, > JavaRE 1.5.0_06. My code is trying to get the text height according to > the font. However I got hight=0 only for some fonts. ... > Any thoughts or suggestions? One source of the problem is that Windows and Java by default have an incomplete model of fonts. The popular view is that a font has properties of a combination of bold/nobold and italic/noitalic. In reality a font cannot be changed from not bold to bold, you change to another font in the same family. Java/Windows assumes there are four fonts in a family and switches between them based on check boxes. Where Window loses it is when you have more than four fonts in the same family. It most likely is adding Helvetica Neue to the Helvetica family and is having problems. The design department at one of my customers had this same issue and the actual symptoms changed from system to system apparently depending on the order the fonts were loaded. Products like InDesign seem to bypass the o/s and have their own font handling so you pick a family then get a drop down of the fonts that are in that family. One admittedly poor work around is to change the name of the font to something like "MyHelvetica Neue" so windows/java sees it as a different family. We finally rewrote JFontChooser to select fonts from a font server to solve the problem. Jeff Coffield Free MagazinesGet these publications absolutely FREE for up to 12 months. There are no hidden fees and no obligation. Simply choose a title, complete the application form and submit it. Read more ...
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