Java Fonts

[jconnor]

I would like to run a Java 6 app on TCL.  When testing this app I found that the fonts used on Microsoft machines look different than the fonts on TCL.  The application needs consistent fonts between Windows and Tiny Core.  The font that is used by Java is the "Dialog" font.  My understanding is that this is not really an actual font but more of an alias to OS installed fonts.  In Ubuntu I was able to install mscorefonts and this resolved the issue.  However, I am not sure how to do this with TCL.  I believe that it is more than just downloading the fonts from SorceForge.  I believe that the fontconfigs have to be setup also in /etc/local/sun-java/jre/lib, but am not sure where how to do this correctly.

If anyone has gone through this exercise and is willing to give me a step by step I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!

[Arslan S.]

there is a msttcorefonts-installer in scripting forums but it is a bit outdated
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,4297.msg22511.html#msg22511

you need to edit and make the following changes

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< TCEDIR=`cat /opt/.tce_dir`
> TCEDIR=/etc/sysconfig/tcedir
also load dependencies: wget, coreutils, cabextract, squashfs-tools-4.x

[jconnor]

I did find the msttcorefonts-installer.tcz in the apps browser.  I installed it, but I don't see any changes in fonts.  I am assuming that there are several more steps in the process that I am missing.

thanks

[Arslan S.]

yea there is one more step: run msttcorefonts-installer in a terminal

it will download mstt core fonts and create an extension and put it in your tce folder. you need to add it to your onboot.lst for persistency.