Is there a way to add fonts to the already supported fonts in Java. The
  documentation says that if you want to add a new font you must edit the
  font.properties file. Cadence doesn't want to change the font.properties
  file everytime there is a new release of Java and on all platforms. Is
  there a way they can load their own fonts file in addition to the font file
  in jre/lib ? The reson they are asking is
  that they have to make all Java applications developed at Cadence
  consistent with the other Cadence tools.
  These, on Unix use the two following fonts:

-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
-adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1

  These fonts are available on Solaris, HP, and IBM and Cadence has
  standarized on them. Using the fonts already in the fonts.properties
  makes their tools incompatible. Also, some of the fonts included in that
  file don't exists on HP and therefor get very large fonts in out apps
  on HP.

  So here's what they need:

1. A way to load our own font file in addition to the one
shipped in JDK/JRE.

2. If not, method to create a font specification dynamically
in the look and feel, etc ..

3. If not, could you add these fonts in the font.properties
file in your next release. If so, then they can change the
fonts file in 1.6 for this release, but then they would expect
the fonts to be there after 1.6.