Fonts under Java in FC3

[Anand Buddhdev]

Hi people,

I've installed the Sun jre 1.5.0_03. I'm now trying to run one 
application under this jre. Some of the fonts in this application are 
very bad, even though I have high quality Microsoft fonts installed. My 
fonts are installed properly, because my Gnome desktop can see and use 
them, and they are also visible if I run "xlsfonts". I used Google and 
discovered that this is a common problem with Sun's java on linux. One 
recommendation is to create a file called 
/usr/java/jre1.5.0_03/lib/fontconfig.RedHat.3.properties, and define 
one's preferred fonts in there. I've attached a copy of my file to this 
message for reference. I've strace'd the application, and I do see that 
this file is being opened and read, so I know it's being picked up the 
jre. However, it has made no difference to the fonts. They're as ugly as 
ever (chunky, with pixels sticking out everywhere).

Does anyone have any other recommendations? Is there any other way to 
force a java application to use fonts of one's own choice? I don't have 
the source code of this java application. It's distributed as a .jar file.