I was installing some software today that Oracle has a site license for from a set of instructions on an internal web site. One of the steps explained to remove the True Type version of the "Symbol" font (symbol.ttf in the Fonts folder) so I did. Later in the day I noticed that JDeveloper 10g had started to show buttons and other controls in my web pages twice as tall as they would normally display. Then I noticed my code-editor window appeared to be double-spaced, with each line occupying twice the normal height. I started up a competitors Java IDE to see if the issue affected it as well, and it did.
Lucky for me after a little Googling I found this:
http://www.javadesktop.org/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=106515
Which alerted me to the fact that removing the Symbol True Type font was not the smartest of things for the installation steps to recommend that I do. After restoring the Symbol True Type font, all of my Java-based applications started displaying their fonts in the normal height again.
Forewarned is forearmed!
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