Font problems running a swing app under Linux

Question

I have an application running well under the Win family (NT, 2000, etc.)... and it also runs well under a Linux Red Hat os... but in the linux environment I've observed the folloowing font errors displayed in the screen:
Font specified in font.properties not found [--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]
this is a unexpected issue because I'm not setting any font in my code... How can I solve it ?
It's a Java or OS configuration problem ??

Answer 1

Here is a solution:-
Copy SYMBOL.TTF to /usr/java/jdk1.3.1_01/jre/lib/fonts or wherever.
Note the copy should have lower case name!
Do a chmod 444 symbol.ttf
I don't say where to get a copy from but you can imagine!!
Modify the file fonts.dir in the same directory as follows:
Change the first line by 1 ie if its 72 change to 73.
Insert the following line:
symbol.ttf -monotype-symbol-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-abode-fontspecific
You have to do the above as root of course.