Font is not available to the JVM with Jasper Reports

Question

I'm trying to generate report with DynamicJasper, but I'm getting the following error:

net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRFontNotFoundException:                                    Font 'Arial' is not available to the JVM.    

msttcorefonts is installed, but I guess the JVM is not using any fonts from it.

I'm using Ubuntu 10.04.

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

I tried installing mscorefonts, but the package was installed and up-to-date.

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer 

I tried searching for the font in the filesystem, with:

ls /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/ 

This folder just had the README, with the correct instructions on how to install.

cat /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/README 

You need an internet connection for this:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall ttf-mscorefonts-installer 

I re-installed ttf-mscorefonts-installer (as shown above, making sure to accept the EULA!) and the problem was solved.