fonts in eclipse

[Doug Poland]

long cao said:
>>> > I'm having a different font problem with java apps (Eclipse) but
>>> > I'm wondering if it's related to this.  My dialog and menu fonts
>>> > are huge.
>> >
>> > i think i had that problem as well... once i installed ttf fonts
>> > package from ports and copy over [arial?] from ms systems, the
>> > problem went away
>> >
>> > [eclipse initially complained of not being able to find the fonts
>> > and then went to defaults]
>> >
>> > hope this helps
>> >
>>
>> So far, yes it does.  However, I cannot find a ttf port on my
>> 4.8-STABLE system.
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>>
>
>  ~ports/x11-fonts/webfonts
>
> the port contains the fonts i was referring to. :)
>
Thanks, unfortunately I still have these huge fonts.  This is what
I've done...

  Read the file: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.fonts
  Installed the webfonts port
  Edited my XF86Config file and removed

	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"

  Removed the above directory from the file system
  Ran fc-cache
  Restarted X
  setenv GDK_USE_XFT 1
  Started Eclipse and...
    Window ->Preferences ->Workbench ->Fonts ->Restore Defaults

I wonder if this might be a problem with an underlying system,
Eclipse depends on several ports that manipulate fonts...

% pkg_info -rR /var/db/pkg/eclipse-2.1.1_2/
Information for eclipse-2.1.1_2:

Depends on:
Dependency: urwfonts-1.0
Dependency: jpeg-6b_1
Dependency: png-1.2.5_2
Dependency: pkgconfig-0.15.0
Dependency: freetype2-2.1.4_1
Dependency: open-motif-2.2.2_1
Dependency: libiconv-1.9.1_1
Dependency: tiff-3.5.7_1
Dependency: expat-1.95.6_1
Dependency: javavmwrapper-1.4
Dependency: imake-4.3.0_1
Dependency: fontconfig-2.2.90_3
Dependency: XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_5
Dependency: gettext-0.11.5_1
Dependency: XFree86-fontEncodings-4.3.0
Dependency: glib-2.2.2
Dependency: jdk-1.4.1p3
Dependency: atk-1.2.4
Dependency: XFree86-fontScalable-4.3.0
Dependency: Xft-2.1.2
Dependency: pango-1.2.3
Dependency: gtk-2.2.2

Also, here's my XF86Config font path:

        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts"

I appreciate your help so far.  I hope you don't mind if I Cc this to
the list as resolution may ultimately help others.

-- 
Regards,
Doug