Load fonts (ttf) inside a jar

[vassilis13]

Helloall,

I have created a project in netbeans using jasperreports. jrxml and jasper files exist in folder app.gui. In all jrxml files I have pdfFontName="arial.ttf" . In Netbeans in project properties I have added folder C:\Project\lib\Fonts. In this folder I have copied all ttf files. In netbeans the project and the reports are executed fine.

However, when I try to execute the jar file in dist folder there is always problem in producing reports even if I try everything possible combination. The manifest file in app.jar contains entry lib/Fonts. The structure in netbeans dist folder is

dist (Folder)

       App.jar

      lib(Folder)

         (other jars here)

          Fonts (Folder)

               All ttfs here

 

The exception I get   is "Could not load the following font: .... etx" from JRRuntimeExceptionReport.

 

I would appreciate any help.

Thanks

Vassilis

          

 

[thangalin]

Hi,

Bundle the ttf files in a Java archive file:

$ jar -tvf font-liberationsans.jar
   238 Sun Jun 20 23:25:58 PDT 2010 jasperreports_extension.properties
   312 Sun Jun 20 23:25:58 PDT 2010 fonts/fontsfamily1277101559240.xml
 25436 Sun Jun 20 23:25:58 PDT 2010 fonts/LiberationSans-Regular.ttf
 19472 Sun Jun 20 23:25:58 PDT 2010 fonts/LiberationSans-Bold.ttf

Then add the directory of the JAR file to the java.ext.dirs path parameter when invoking the Java Virtual Machine. For example:

java -Djava.ext.dirs=./software/climate/java/fonts com.class.Main

 

[vassilis13]

Hello,

Thanks for your feedback. In that way my application also works. The problem is that I do not want to extract the jar file and execute the class.I want the jar to be executed: java -jar App.jar.

With the above command I cannot pass JVM parameters to the commandline and I have to insert the path of the fonts to manifest file. Unfortunately, this does not seem to work, and that's why I posted.

Thanks,

Vassilis

 

 

 

 

 

 

[thangalin]

Post your manifest file, if permitted.

 

Not the one you think is created (i.e., the manifest file that the IDE inserts into App.jar), but the one that is actually inside the App.jar.