Font is not available to the JVM with Jasper Reports - jvm

Question

I'm trying to generate report with DynamicJasper, but I'm getting the following error:
net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRFontNotFoundException:
Font 'Arial' is not available to the JVM.
msttcorefonts is installed, but I guess the JVM is not using any fonts from it.
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04.
How can I fix this?

Answer 1

I tried installing mscorefonts, but the package was installed and up-to-date.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
I tried searching for the font in the filesystem, with:
ls /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/
This folder just had the README, with the correct instructions on how to install.
cat /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/README
You need an internet connection for this:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ttf-mscorefonts-installer
I re-installed ttf-mscorefonts-installer (as shown above, making sure to accept the EULA!) and the problem was solved.

Answer 2

JasperReports raises a JRFontNotFoundException in the case where the font used inside a report template is not available to the JVM as either as a system font or a font coming from a JR font extension. This ensure that all problems caused by font metrics mismatches are avoided and we have an early warning about the inconsistency.
Jasper reports is trying to help you in your report development, stating that it can not export your report correctly since it can not find the font defined in TextField or StaticText
<font fontName="Arial"/>
Yes you can disable this by setting net.sf.jasperreports.awt.ignore.missing.font to true but you will have export inconsistencies.
Yes you can install the font as JVM system font (but you need to do it on every PC used that may generate report and you can still have encoding problems).
The correct way!
Use Font Extensions!, if you like to create your own (see link below), jasper reports also distributes a default font-extension jar (jasperreports-fonts-x.x.x.jar), that supports fontName DejaVu Sans, DejaVu Serif and DejaVu Sans Mono
<font fontName="DejaVu Sans"/>
From the JasperReport Ultimate Guide:
We strongly encourage people to use only fonts derived from font
extensions, because this is the only way to make sure that the fonts
will be available to the application when the reports are executed at
runtime. Using system fonts always brings the risk for the reports not
to work properly when deployed on a new machine that might not have
those fonts installed
Links on StackOverflow on how to render fonts correctly in pdf
Checklist on how to render font correctly in pdf
Generate font-extensions with JasperSoft Studio
Generate font-extensions with iReport

Answer 3

I use IReport to install font:
tools -> options -> fonts -> click install font
Then select the font and click
-> export as extension and type name myfont.jar
add this jar and also spring.jar* to your build path.
*copy spring.jar from Jaspersoft\iReport-3.7.0\ireport\modules\ext

Answer 4

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts works (on our Ubuntu development environment), but is not a very good solution.
Instead, we bundled the fonts with our application based on this tip. Their JAR file bundles the following fonts,
Arial
Times New Roman
Courier New
Comic Sans MS
Georgia
Verdana
Monospaced
Direct Link to download jar:
Maven ver 1.0. DynamicFonts

Answer 5

There are three method to avoid such a problem.
Method 1 : by setting ignore missing font property.
JRProperties.setProperty("net.sf.jasperreports.awt.ignore.missing.font", "true");
or you can set this property by entering following line into .jrxml file.
<property name="net.sf.jasperreports.awt.ignore.missing.font" value="true"/>
Method 2 : by setting default font property.
JRProperties.setProperty("net.sf.jasperreports.default.font.name", "Sans Serif");
or you can set this property by entering following line into .jrxml file.
<property name="net.sf.jasperreports.default.font.name" value="Sans Serif"/>
Method 3 : by adding missing font property.
Firstly install missing fonts in IReport by selecting " Tools >> Options >> Fonts >> Install Font " then select the all font and Export this By clicking on "Export as Extension" with .jar Extension.
You can use this jar for Jasperreports-font.X.X.X.jar which will be present in your project library or classpath.

Answer 6

For CentOS:
wget msttcorefonts
Then:
tar -zxvf msttcorefonts.tar.gz
cp msttcorefonts/*.ttf /usr/share/fonts/TTF/
fc-cache -fv
After all, restart JVM.

Answer 7

I solved this by choosing 'SansSerif' or 'Serif' only and not 'Arial' or 'Times New Roman'.

Answer 8

If you are using maven in your project, you can just add the jasper-fonts dependency to pom.xml:
<dependency>
<groupId>net.sf.jasperreports</groupId>
<artifactId>jasperreports-fonts</artifactId>
<version>6.8.1</version>
</dependency>
Installing the missing font on the system may be a working solution but not for me, I didn't want to have to install the missing fonts after each deployment in a new server, instead I opted for embedding the font with the application.
Regards.

Answer 9

Try adding the line
net.sf.jasperreports.awt.ignore.missing.font=true
to your jasperreports.properties file.
Jasper stops finding one font

Answer 10

For Debian
add
non-free contrib
to deb and deb-src in /etc/apt/sources.list ie:
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main non-free contrib
Then
apt-get update
apt-get install msttcorefonts
Of course you'll need to restart jasperserver. ie:
/opt/jasperreports-server-cp-4.5.0/ctlscript.sh restart
Change for your version / path.

Answer 11

I faced the issue with my web application based on Spring 3 and deployed on Weblogic 10.3 on Oracle Linux 6. The solution mentioned at the link did not work for me.
I had to take the following steps -
1. Copy the Arial*.ttf font files to JROCKIT_JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/fonts directory
2. Make entries of the fonts in fontconfig.properties.src
3. Restart the cluster from Weblogic console
filename.Arial=Arial.ttf
filename.Arial_Bold=Arial_Bold.ttf
filename.Arial_Italic=Arial_Italic.ttf
filename.Arial_Bold_Italic=Arial_Bold_Italic.ttf

Answer 12

You can do it by installing fonts, that means everywhere you want to run that particular application. Simplest way is just add this bl line to your jrxml file:
<property name="net.sf.jasperreports.awt.ignore.missing.font" value="true"/>

Answer 13

can make your custom fonts via iReport and converting like jars files

Answer 14

Create jasper report in multiple languages(Unicode)
1)Install font in ireport desginer
2)create extension of font(we will use it in applications classpath)
3)install font on os(optional)
4)paste all .ttf of font in jre->lib->fonts directory (otherwise web application will throw error font is not available to JVM)

Answer 15

You can use this library which packages the Liberation-fonts as JasperReport font extension, and registers them as Arial, Times New Roman and Courier:
https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.mpobjects.jasperreports.font/jasperreports-fonts-liberation

Answer 16

Actually I fixed this issue in a very simple way
go to your home path, like /root
create a folder named .fonts
copy your all your font files to .fonts, you can copy the font from C:\windows\fonts if you use windows.
sudo apt-get install fontconfig
fc-cache –fv to rebuid fonts caches.

Answer 17

Solution in 2 steps (if you are using centOS)
Download the Microsoft core fonts rpm package.
[root#WEBSVR~/]# wget http://www.itzgeek.com/msttcore-fonts-2.0-3.noarch.rpm
Install rpm package.
[root#WEBSVR~/]# rpm -Uvh msttcore-fonts-2.0-3.noarch.rpm

Answer 18

Add the below in your .jrxml file:
<property name="net.sf.jasperreports.awt.ignore.missing.font" value="true"/>

Answer 19

Copy your Fonts on the following directory
JDK_HOME\jre\lib\fonts

Answer 20

Hey Having trouble viewing documents produced on Windows?
You can try a fine solution easy:
yum install curl cabextract xorg-x11-font-utils fontconfig
rpm -i
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mscorefonts2/rpms/msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6-1.noarch.rpm
After this I need reboot my system CentOS6.
Source: http://mscorefonts2.sourceforge.net/