JLabel html text ignores setFont

Question

I\'ve just started porting my Swing app from OS X to Windows and things are painful with JLabels.

I\'ve noticed that the font specified to setFont

Answer 1

registerFont()

I found this little gem while Googling about if I could copy a .ttf into the JRE at runtime. It does exactly what it's supposed to. If you use Font.createFont to load a font at runtime, just do:

GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment().registerFont(myCreatedFont)

to register it with the JRE.

This allows the font to show up in HTML'd text as well as plaintext on Windows!