Solaris-x86 5.6 8-bit (test machine: Dino)
JDK-1.2fcs-F
/usr/local/java/jdk1.2/solaris/demo/jfc/Java2D

Steps to reproduce
1. Load Java2Demo
2. Notice the Font warnings as it loads. Example:-

Font specified in font.properties not found [-monotype-courier 
new-bold-i---*-%d-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1]

Locate the package SUNWi1of on your Solaris x86 CD and
(as root) 

pkgadd -d . SUNWi1of

This error is not x86 specific, and I believe it is probably a result
of picking one of the Solaris non-full install options, when the OS was
installed.

The missing fonts are part of the package SUNWi1of

% pkginfo -l SUNWi1of
   PKGINST:  SUNWi1of
      NAME:  ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) Optional Fonts
  CATEGORY:  system
      ARCH:  i386
   VERSION:  3.6.370,REV=0.97.06.18
   BASEDIR:  /usr
    VENDOR:  Sun Microsystems, Inc.
      DESC:  ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) Optional Fonts
  INSTDATE:  Aug 24 1998 13:38
   HOTLINE:  Please contact your local service provider
    STATUS:  completely installed
     FILES:    200 installed pathnames
                 5 shared pathnames
                 8 directories
              9820 blocks used (approx)

This package is not installed on the Solaris x86 system 'dino'

% uname -n
dino
%  pkginfo -l SUNWi1of
ERROR: information for "SUNWi1of" was not found

Perhaps we shouldn't require so-called "optional" fonts, but if we do, we ought
to document it in a suitable README.

You have got to be kidding me.
Has anyone at JavaSoft thought about the realities
of shipping applications built with Java?  Does it
not occur to you that you can require whatever
you want from developers - but the chances of them
being able to tell their customers "Oh, by the
way, this little user app you're buying requires
you to make the following changes to your system
in areas utterly unrelated to the app.  Talk to 
your sysadmin for the appropriate privileges."
I'm trying to get an app with a potentially
enormous distribution migrated to 1.2.  This issue,
and all the other ones revolving around the
whole font.properties disaster, is going to 
single-handedly keep us from adopting 1.2.

C'mon folks, this is not Windows here. Open
this bug and fix it! Be done with this Sun
font.properties nonsense.

Well, I added the missing package (*definitely needs
documenting* - I spent two days tracking the problem down
before *finally* finding this report).

No more messages, but the 'new' fonts are UGLY - clearly
pixelated - and this is on a SUN Ultra 5 running Solaris
2.7!   I agree with the other comments - SUN should really
fix this properly!  (Note that jdk1.2.1 didn't have this problem,
either - it showed up (for me) in jdk1.2.2...).  Why does
1.2.1 have better looking fonts than 1.2.2?