Java 1.5 and system fonts

Hi,

I don't know if this is the right group to ask this (if not, where
should I post?), but here we go: I have two machines, both running
Debian, and installed the official Sun JDK (1.5.0_05) on both. Here's
the question: on one machine, Java applications find all fonts that
have been installed on the system; on the other, Java applications only
find a very small set of standard fonts.

Obviously, there must a difference between the two systems (they are
certainly not identical, although they are pretty similar) -- but I
can't think what it could be. It is certainly not a configuration in
the JDK itself, because the two installations on both machines are
identical (I even diff-ed both directories to be sure :-) What I don't
know is how to make fonts available to the JVM - or, what I have done
wrong/correct on either machine. I know the fonts have been installed,
because running Gimp (for instance) on either machine finds all the
fonts. The fontconfig configuration in /etc/fonts is also identifical
as far as I can see (I don't know if that has anything to do with
anything, but I checked anyway :) Also, both systems are running defoma
(the Debian font manager), but I don't know if that can help in any way
here.

Any pointers or hints would be appreciated,

Thanks,

Edsko

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