Jasper report Font not found exception

Question

When i am using jasper report on windows and mac it works fine, when i deploy my app to linux machine and tried to generate the report it throwed

net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRFontNotFoundException: Font 'Times New Roman' is not available to the JVM. See the Javadoc for more details.

I know we can resolve the issue by installing the missing fonts in linux machine (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3987804/jasper-stops-finding-one-font). My question is, Can we pack fonts as jar and giving as package with application. How to do this ?

Solution

You need Jasper's font extensions to achieve this. This blog explains the steps to achieve this and extend that to available for PDF export as well.