[Bug 937200] [NEW] Fat fonts in Swing applications

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Since I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 I noticed that the fonts in Java Swing
applications use the bold font weight. This looks really ugly and takes
up to much space.


1.
lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu precise (development branch)
Release:	12.04


2. 
apt-cache policy openjdk-7-jdk 
openjdk-7-jdk:
  Installiert: 7~b147-2.0-1ubuntu2
  Kandidat:    7~b147-2.0-1ubuntu2
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 7~b147-2.0-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3. 
Applications rendering with normal fonts

4.
Applications rendering with bold fonts

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: openjdk-7-jdk 7~b147-2.0-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.26-generic 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.92-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Feb 20 20:44:43 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
SourcePackage: openjdk-7
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-16 (3 days ago)

** Affects: fonts-unfonts-core (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Low
         Status: Invalid

** Affects: openjdk-7 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Low
         Status: Triaged


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug patch precise raring saucy trusty
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Fat fonts in Swing applications
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/937200
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