Currently I’m finalizing a reporting solution based on JasperReports. The solution includes a JasperServer instance running on Linux. After deploying some initial reports to JasperServer using iReports I noticed that the TrueType fonts used when designing the reports (on Windows) did not render correctly. In fact, they did not render at all … JasperReports decided to use a default font instead.

From the JasperServer log it appeared that the font used in the report could not be found: “JRFontNotFoundException: Font 'Courier New' is not available to the JVM”

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