Java – Font ‘Arial’ is not available to the JVM

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I'm working on a Java project that uses Jasperreports. I worked several times in other projects using the same technology, and i had the same problem when trying to print a report in Unix environments.

My project uses:

  • JBoss 4.2.3.GA
  • Java 1.6
  • Jasperreports 4.7.0

The exception thrown is:

net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRFontNotFoundException: Font 'Arial' is not available to the JVM. See the Javadoc for more details.

I found a common solution to solve this issue and ir really works:

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

However, I want to understand how Jasper works with fonts, and how it searches this fonts installed in Unix environments. Maybe a better question is: how JVM handles native fonts? Can anyone give me a detailed explanation on this subject? How are system fonts made available for the JVM in runtime?

Best Answer

Java asks the OS to provide the fonts. How that works depends on the OS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial states its is installed on MS-Windows and MAC OSX

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