java font format exception on osx with java 4 update

Question

I'm getting a

java.awt.FontFormatException: Unrecognised Font Format

error, and I believe this has been happening only since performing the 10.5 java 4 update, though I can't verify that to be exact. My java version after the update is 1.5.0_19

I'm using jruby in rails to generate a font with the following code:

font = java.awt.Font.createFont(java.awt.Font::TRUETYPE_FONT, java.io.FileInputStream.new("#{RAILS_ROOT}/lib/Arial.ttf"))

The Arial.ttf is taken from my OSX fonts folder and it is obviously a TTF, so what is wrong?

Has anyone experienced any odd font issues after upgrading java? I don't know if I have to update jruby after updating java, but I can't imagine that's the case.

Any thoughts are appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi Brad,

Am experiencing the exact same problem :( no solution yet

Answer 2

Hi Brad, I found a solution that worked for me. Apparently its a problem with user permissions. In my case the problem occurred when starting up my weblogic server. I was running Weblogic as root, but my font file was owned by a system user. Changing the permissions of the file did not solve my problem, but changing the ownership of Weblogic itself did. So if I run my server with the same user that owns the font file, the problem magically disappeared.

I guess the update solved some security or ownership issues that introduced a new problem. Hope the solution to my problem helps you find the cause of yours.

good luck

Siets