Hi Matthew, This is a message I sent last February regarding a large font problem I had on the Mac. It may be relevant to your situaton.
Ronan ------ Forwarded Message From: Ronan Reilly <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:17:15 +0100 To: General forum <[email protected]> Conversation: fix to annoying java font problem in J forms on Mac Subject: fix to annoying java font problem in J forms on Mac Just in case anyone else has encountered this: Platform Mac OS X 10.5.6 java version "1.5.0_16" Problem Fonts in J forms (and other apps such as SPSS) display too large for buttons etc. resulting in abbreviation of labels. This can be seen, for example, in the J package manager form. Solution Basically, you have to revert to using the earlier version of Java. This can be done by starting up the Java Preferences application in /Applications/Utilities/Java. In the the General pane under Java application versions, reorder the listed J2SE versions. In my case, this meant putting J2SE 1.4.2 above J2SE 5.0 in the list presented. Ronan ------ End of Forwarded Message On 29/05/2009 16:30, "Matthew Brand" <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you know which is the correct Java to use? How can I check which > one J is using? > > I have: > m...@mb-laptop:~/j64-602/bin$ java -version > java version "1.6.0_13" > Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_13-b03) > Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.3-b02, mixed mode) > > > On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Bill Harris > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Matthew Brand <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> I think that somebody solved this before, but I cannot find it in the >>> archives. This morning J was running perfectly well on Ubuntu 64 for >>> me. Tonight the font used in the jwd window and used in the forms is >>> massive (at least twice it's former size) even though the font sizes >>> in all the options are set to 10 points. >> >> It vaguely sounds familiar, as if it happened to me when I used the >> wrong Java. >> >> Bill >> -- >> Bill Harris http://facilitatedsystems.com/weblog/ >> Facilitated Systems Everett, WA 98208 USA >> http://facilitatedsystems.com/ phone: +1 425 337-5541 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Professor Ronan Reilly Department of Computer Science NUI Maynooth Maynooth Co. Kildare IRELAND t: +353-1-7083846 e: [email protected] w: http://www.cs.nuim.ie; http://cortex.cs.nuim.ie ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
