Font Problems going from Windows to Ubuntu

Hey All,
I have an application that I am trying to support. It is a old(er) swing application that looks fine in Windows, but the font is all screwed up when trying to run it in Ubuntu in the offical sun release of JDK 1.6. I think it might be the same font family, it is just a lot bigger in linux. I also have the Open JDK 1.6 installed and the font seems to be fine under that. All my fonts are defined like this:
Font font = new Font("<one of the logical font names>", Font.PLAIN, 12);I have read up on the logical fonts mapping to the physical fonts and have a couple of questions:
1.) In the sun release of the JDK 1.6 that I have installed on my machine, I cannot find fontconfig.properties... I do however have these files:
fontconfig.bfc
fontconfig.properties.src
fontconfig.RedHat.2.1.bfc
fontconfig.RedHat.2.1.properties.src
fontconfig.RedHat.3.bfc
fontconfig.RedHat.3.properties.src
fontconfig.RedHat.4.bfc
fontconfig.RedHat.4.properties.src
fontconfig.RedHat.bfc
fontconfig.RedHat.properties.src
fontconfig.Sun.bfc
fontconfig.Sun.properties.src
fontconfig.SuSE.bfc
fontconfig.SuSE.properties.src
fontconfig.Turbo.bfc
fontconfig.Turbo.properties.srcIs fontconfig.properties.src file the same as the fontconfig.properties? What are all those other ones for? Are you supposed to rename them for your OS (like say you were on Red Hat 4, would rename fontconfig.RedHat.4.properties.src to just fontconfig.properties.src)? What are the *.bfc file?
2.) Is there a way for me to tell what physical font the logical one is pointing at programatically?
Font font = new Font("Dialog", Font.PLAIN, 12);
System.out.println(font.getFamily());//Just Returns 'Dialog'3.) I tried to copy over the fontconfig.properties.src file from the Open JDK to the official one, but it didn't work... should it have? Why didn't it? Do I need to copy other file, too?
4.) What font families do the logical fonts point at by default on windows? What about on Linux?
I am sorry I have a lot of questions, but I am new swing. I have been working with J2EE and Linux for a long time, but now have to support this legacy app. I am just looking for a little guidance.
Thanks in advance,
Matt

Found a solution. I installed the micro$oft fonts from the ubuntu repository and did a little refactoring. Instead of using the logical fonts, I change all the references to:
Dialog --> Arial
Monospaced --> Courier New
DialogInput --> Courier New
SanSerif --> Arial
Serif --> Times New Roman
And it looks almost exactly the same on ubuntu vs xp.

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The support center explained the likely problem as one of duplicate
tags. Apparently, we had in d2 created window widgets (specifically
grid fields) without giving them names. We had done this variably
on the superclass and subclass. When Forte e2 tried to merge the
super and subclasses, it found a conflict between the tags (apparently
these are system assigned numbers). It is supposed to just give a
warning about these problems but in this case, it completely crashed.
The solution was not completely terrible but took several hours. We
first fixed the superclass to make sure all grids were names. Then
we dragged/dropped the subclass windows into a new project. There we
could access them and give all grids names. Then we deleted the originals
and dragged/dropped the copies back in. Voila! Fixed after about 3
hours and a bit of sweating.
The moral of this story is to name all widgets including grids and to
tread lightly when changing widgets in superclass windows.
Jerry Fatcheric
Relational Options, Inc.
Florham Park, New Jersey
201-301-0200
201-301-00377 (FAX)
[email protected]

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