I just noticed that the font metrics for Dialog Bold are wrong
on the PC. The characters when drawn on the screen are narrower
than claimed in the font metrics.

sample test:

import java.io.*;
import java.awt.*;

/**
 * This illustrates a problem in the FontMetrics for Dialog bold on
 * the PC. The programs draws two identical strings. The first string
 * is drawn using one call to drawString, the other is drawn using
 * multiple calls to drawstring using the fontmetrics to position
 * the cursor. This works fine on Solaris.
 */

class Test extends Canvas {
    static Font font = new Font("Dialog", Font.BOLD, 14);
    static String str = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";

    public void paint(Graphics g) {
g.setFont(font);
FontMetrics fm = g.getFontMetrics();
g.drawString(str, 10, 20);
g.drawString(str, 10, 20);

int x = 10;
int y = 40;

for (int i = 0 ; i < str.length() ; i++) {
String chstr = str.substring(i, i+1);
g.drawString(chstr, x, y);
x += fm.stringWidth(chstr);
}
    }
    public static void main(String argv[]) {
// Create a base frame
Frame frm = new Frame("hello");
Test t = new Test();
frm.add("Center", t);
frm.reshape(100, 100, 400, 400);
frm.show();
    }
}