Here is what I found out, hopefully, since I would think this is fairly common, it will help someone else.
If you render text using Graphics2D.setFont and Graphics2D.drawString Java apparently uses the underlying X window system to access the font.
However, if you need to get to the glyph outline (which is what Batik uses) apparently Java needs access to the font file directly. You need to add the font file to <java_home>/jre/lib/fonts and update <java_home>/jre/lib/fonts/fonts.dir.
At 04:25 PM 10/16/2002 -0700, you wrote:
Hi,
I'm having trouble using fonts in SVG under Linux (Mandrake 8.1), Batik version 1.5beta4.
When I use the browser or the renderer very few of the fonts I have installed on the system are recognized (~ 4 or 5).
I wrote a little java program to lists the available fonts and display them on the screen, it is able to recognize all the fonts (about 70 or so). It seems to have 2 failure modes, in one case nothing is displayed, in the other the wrong font is displayed.
On windows as well, all seems to work well.
They svg file is below, the first string displays the second one doesn't. Thanks for any help.
Jerry
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/DTD/svg10.dtd"; >
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";
width="800" height="400" viewBox="0 0 800 400"
overflow="visible" enable-background="new 0 0 800 400" xml:space="preserve">
<g>
<text transform="matrix(1 0 0 1 200 50)" enable-background="new ">
<tspan x="0" y="0" fill="#99A399" font-family="lucidabright" font-size="48">A Test String</tspan>
</text>
<text transform="matrix(1 0 0 1 200 300.584)" fill="#99A399" font-family="Actionis" font-size="48">A Second Test String</text>
</g>
</svg>
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