[Geoserver-users] font problems, yes, its a system problem, but help us please

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seems like people often have problems with fonts with geoserver. in previous
posts, we have been told merely to "look at the java documentation for
fonts" which I haven't yet been able to find. perhaps we could get a little
more direction from someone who is much more experienced with java on the
linux server (know anyone like that?).

mfrumin@anonymised.com:~/rpa/trx$ env | grep -i JAVA_HOME
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun

mfrumin@anonymised.com:~/rpa/trx$ find /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/ | grep -i
ttf
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/fonts/LucidaTypewriterRegular.ttf
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/fonts/LucidaTypewriterBold.ttf
...
...

but when I pick one of the installed fonts, LucidaTypewriterRegular for
example, I still get this error:
796609823 [INFO] org.geotools.renderer.style.SLDStyleFactory - Bad file name
in SLDStyleFactoryLucidaTypewriterRegular

thanks again for the awesome product, doing some great stuff that I'll b
ready to show publicly pretty soon.

thanks,
mike
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mfrumin ha scritto:

seems like people often have problems with fonts with geoserver. in previous
posts, we have been told merely to "look at the java documentation for
fonts" which I haven't yet been able to find. perhaps we could get a little
more direction from someone who is much more experienced with java on the
linux server (know anyone like that?).

mfrumin@anonymised.com:~/rpa/trx$ env | grep -i JAVA_HOME
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun

mfrumin@anonymised.com:~/rpa/trx$ find /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/ | grep -i
ttf
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/fonts/LucidaTypewriterRegular.ttf
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/fonts/LucidaTypewriterBold.ttf
...

but when I pick one of the installed fonts, LucidaTypewriterRegular for
example, I still get this error:
796609823 [INFO] org.geotools.renderer.style.SLDStyleFactory - Bad file name
in SLDStyleFactoryLucidaTypewriterRegular

Hmmm.... I do think you should use LucidaTypewriter as the name of the font, or Ludida Typewriter. Anyways, if you have full paths, use them
directly in your SLD: file:///usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/fonts/LucidaTypewriterRegular.ttf

This should work. Unfortunately I'm not not a linux machine. Justin?
Cheers
Andrea