Getting available fonts

I am trying to get the availalable font types on the system which is running my java application. Right now I use a call to:

fonts = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getFontList();

This only returns a couple of fonts (specifically the fonts available in the awt toolkit). I really want all the fonts available on the system. I am using Windows NT as my platform.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Mich

You can see only the fonts known by the Java Runtime. In the help which comes with the JDK you find information how to add a new font to the Java Runtime.
Unfortunatelly, you should do it by hand, modifying the font.properties file.

Hi.

Actually, it is possible.
What I did last winter (when doing a simple paint applet) was something like this:

FontX oFontX = new FontX();
String[] oFonts = oFontx.getFontList();

(you might have to import com.ms.awt.*)


This works for getting all the available font types (for example for loading into a combo box) but that doesn't change the fact that you can't use any TrueType fonts in the applet. At least I couldn't. Let me know if you find out.

hi,
the piece of code which iam giving will fetch all possible fonts on ur system.Actually it filled out my entire dos window :).
this works with java 2 only.

create an array of Font,
u have to use awt package for this.

GraphicsEnvironment ge=GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment();
fonts=ge.getAllFonts();