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Asked: 2026-05-13T08:54:46+00:00

Is it possible to use bitmap (.fon) fonts in Netbeans? I have a font

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Is it possible to use bitmap (.fon) fonts in Netbeans? I have a font I particularly like (Raize font) and I don’t see it anywhere on the list when I try to set it as the editor font.
I can use it in other editors (Notepad++, pspad, visual c++ express etc). I can’t use it in jedit either. Is this issue java related?

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  1. Editorial Team

    According the Java API Specification for the java.awt.font package, which is used to add font support to Java, mentions that the following types of fonts are supported:

    • Type 1 fonts
    • Type 1 Multiple Master fonts
    • OpenType fonts
    • TrueType fonts

    It appears that Microsoft bitmap fonts (.fon) are not supported, at least from the information I was able to find.

    On a related note, to get a listing of all the Fonts which are installed in Java at the current time, one can make a call to GraphicsEnvironment.getAllFonts which will return a Font[] of all the fonts which can be used.

    (Note that the GraphicsEnvironment class cannot be instantiated, but an instance can be obtained by the GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment method.)

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