Migrating to Forms 10g - text out of sync

Hi guys
Newbie so please be gentle ....
Have recently joined a new company and, having last touched Oracle forms 12 years ago, have been designated the label of 'Forms Expert' !!
Which is fine, I enjoy a challenge! But .....
Have been tasked with moving some forms from an old to new server, at the same time migrating them to 10g.
On the new server, when the forms are compiled, some of the text appears to be in a bigger font and / or out of sync with the data items on some forms.
Any ideas??
I've had a quick browse through various forums and have checked the registry.dat file against it's equivalent on the old server, what is sensible etc and there don't appear to be any problems there.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Ian

Ian,
The default.fontMap.appFontnames determines the applications font list and the default.fontMap.javaFontnames determines the Java fonts.
Each entry in the appFontnames must have its mapping in the JavaFontnames, so just add your font name on the first line and add it's corresponding font onto the second.
Restart your server and test.
If you have metalink access also read Note: 434250.1 Note: 1016006.4 and Note: 386954.1
Tony

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