So sorry to bring this up. I have read the FAQ, searched the forum, read blogs and review the samples on this topic and have tried various things over the last few days to get a simple sample to work. I don't know what I am missing. I have setup a simple report with 2 fields that have 2 fonts that look very different so I could tell if it was working. Comic Sans and Curlz_Mt. One of them I installed into the list of fonts (Curlz_MT) and the other I did not (Comic Sans) just to make sure I could tell that one was working in the pdf and the other was not. I created the font extension jar and I believe I made sure it was in the classpath. I even added the folder to the classpath as well as trying it in various locations. Each time I would close the report and iReport to make sure the paths and every thing was loaded into the application. Nothing seemed to work. When I preview the report the pdf shows the same default font for the text which is neither Comic Sans or Curlz_MT. I am using iReport 3.7.6 and Jasper 3.7.6 I have included my jrxml for the simple report and made sure the depricated pdf attributes are not in the file I have included the font extension file, the pdf and screen shots of my font and classpath in iReport. I am planning an upgrade from Jasper 2.0.5 to 3.7.6 in our web application and I want to make sure and implement the font extensions correctly for our pdf generated reports. If I get a new simple report to work then I can troubleshoot and convert our older reports. Thanks for any help you can give. Cheri Code:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><jasperReport xmlns="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/xsd/jasperreport.xsd" name="fonttestreport" pageWidth="595" pageHeight="842" columnWidth="555" leftMargin="20" rightMargin="20" topMargin="20" bottomMargin="20"> <property name="ireport.zoom" value="1.0"/> <property name="ireport.x" value="0"/> <property name="ireport.y" value="0"/> <background> <band splitType="Stretch"/> </background> <columnHeader> <band height="61" splitType="Stretch"> <staticText> <reportElement x="134" y="11" width="272" height="36"/> <textElement> <font fontName="Comic Sans MS" size="24"/> </textElement> <text><![CDATA[This is Comic Sans]]></text> </staticText> </band> </columnHeader> <detail> <band height="125" splitType="Stretch"> <staticText> <reportElement x="16" y="14" width="164" height="36"/> <textElement> <font fontName="Curlz MT" size="16"/> </textElement> <text><![CDATA[This is Curlz MT]]></text> </staticText> <staticText> <reportElement x="246" y="14" width="100" height="36"/> <textElement> <font fontName="Curlz MT" size="15"/> </textElement> <text><![CDATA[Hello]]></text> </staticText> </band> </detail></jasperReport>