Re: [ jEdit-users ] JEdit not aware of installed fonts

[Tom S. <jed...@to...>]

Panos Katergiathis wrote:
> Hello all
> 
> I have installed Suse 9.3 and JEdit 4.1 that goes with it. Under Gnome 
> (or KDE for that matter) JEdit ignores properly working and functioning 
> fonts on my system, leaving me unable to use them with it. It only 
> "sees" the fonts that were originally installed by Suse. The fonts it 
> ignores is the MS series (adopted from my Win machine) and a couple of 
> others made by third-party companies. Any solutions, or pointers?

On Windows, jedit won't show bitmapped fonts, just truetype ones. (I'm 
pretty sure the MS ones -- MS Serif and MS Sans Serif I think? -- are 
bitmapped.) Presumably this is a java limitation, and perhaps it is the 
same on Linux?

--Tom