title: What is the jasperrepots-fonts jar for and how to use it?
body: <p>i'm evaluating JasperReports for report generation. I have some problems with report portability between Windows and Linux. I found a (hacky) solution to make it work cross platform. However i wonder what is the <code>jasperreports-fonts</code> for:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;dependency&gt;
      &lt;groupId&gt;net.sf.jasperreports&lt;/groupId&gt;
      &lt;artifactId&gt;jasperreports-fonts&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;version&gt;5.6.1&lt;/version&gt;
  &lt;/dependency&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I see that it contains the DejaVu Sans font but i have no idea how to use this jar (i found nothing on the net) and if this would solve my cross platform soft in an elegant, simple way.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/E45O1.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Can you tell me more about this jar?</p>