#1578 with Apple JDK 1.4.1, fonts wrong
After installing Apple's released version of JDK 1.4.1, both 1.4.1 and 1.3.1 are available on the system.
I downloaded and installed the pure JAR version of jEdit (ie. not the MacOS .app bundle).
When launching jEdit with 1.4.1, text in the editor is all displayed in the same font. Colors are altered according to the normal rules (eg. for comments et cetera), but the font never becomes bold or italic or anything.
When launching the same jEdit JAR file with 1.3.1, it works.
(I know this observation appeared on the jedit.org discussion boards, but I haven't seen it in the bug tracking system, so I thought I'd drop it in here. If you guys are already looking at the discussion under the "Java 1.4.1 for MacOS X released" news item on jedit.org, let me know, but otherwise I'll try to get more details on each individual bug and post them here. In every case I've seen, the .app bundle behaves like the pure JAR version invoked with JDK 1.4.1, but avoiding the app bundle makes it easier for me to explicitly check differences in behavior between 1.3.1 and 1.4.1.)
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These are all bugs in Apples Java 1.4.1 (it's generally safe
to make that assumption if it works fine in Java 1.3.1).
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This is fixed in the latest developer preview of JDK 1.4.1
and I guess Apple will release this in final form before OS
10.3
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Hi,
I'm still having this problem with the latest JDK using the
Mac bundle. I believe Java 1.4.1. has been updated since
this bug report, because it now works when running the jar.
Anyway, I've tried to triage this as much as possible, here
are my findings:
- Launching jedit.jar (with Java 1.4.1) works fine with all
fonts that have bold. (small bug: bold is always an option
in the Text Area font select box, even for fonts that don't
have Bold)
- Launching jEdit.app doesn't work with *most* fonts
However, certain fonts do work with the .app. I believe the
fonts that work are the ones in the Java framework
directory, and fonts that are "Font bundles" in the
Library/Fonts directory.
I'm sure this has been fixed in 4.2, but is there anything
you can think of which would cause this? Do we already know?
I think it must be in the jEdit.app itself. I've looked
through all the text files and didn't find anything.
Still hoping for bold...
Regards,
Jonathan