FontsOnUnix

Why does Style Report presents different font sets when using XWindows and xvfb (X virtual frame buffer)?

You are experiencing this issue because you did not set the fonts configuration correctly in xvfb and Java AWT depends on the native graphic system which is supplied by Xwindow(or in this case, xvfb) for font and other graphic information. Style Report depends on Java AWT for font and other graphic information. AWT in turn depends on the native graphic system which is X window on UNIX and Linux.

However, the fonts selection in Style Report will always be the same for either xvfb or Xwindow if you specify the use of True Type Fonts(TTF). In order to resolve this issue, please specify the use of TTF by adding the following two lines in your sree.properties file:

font.metrics.source=truetype font.truetype.path=home/user/winfonts

Please note that you must change the path to point the the TTF fonts in your Unix box.

-- StephenWebster - 11 Dec 2007