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mrgreen7

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Registered: 2014-12-21

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Understanding how changing fonts can break Java

Today I uninstalled and afterwards installed again chromium which led to the package ttf-bitstream-vera to be uninstalled and the package noto-fonts to be installed (I guess the font dependency for chromium was changed?).

The lack of the ttf-bitstream-vera package broke Java GUIs. See for example a screenshot of IntelliJ below: http://oi65.tinypic.com/bhjg90.jpg. The problem is solved either by switching from oracles jdk to openJDK or by re-installing the ttf-bitstream-vera.

I am confused with regards to how the lack of a font package can cause such a problem. Does anybody have an explanation for this?

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mpan

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Re: Understanding how changing fonts can break Java

Does anybody have an explanation for this?

Probably one of the glyphs has wrong infromation about its metrics or Swing is calculating height wrong.

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