What is the correct syntax for changing fonts and drawing strings in Java?

Question

Can someone check my syntax here? I am passing "Times New Roman","Arial","Verdana" to fontName and using 8,12,15 etc. for fontSize. It never changes the font here. I am doing this to write some text over an image.

Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) bufferedImage.getGraphics();
g2d.drawImage(photo, 0, 0, null);
g2d.setColor(Color.white);
Font font = new Font(fontName, Font.PLAIN, fontSize);
g2d.setFont(font);
g2d.drawString(text,x,y);

Answer 1

I finally found out that none of fonts from my list were there on the system so I had to use getAllFonts() method and pass only those fonts from the list .

Answer 2

You should be doing this

BufferedImage img = new BufferedImage(
    w, h, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
Graphics2D g2d = img.createGraphics();
g2d.drawImage(photo, 0, 0, null);
g2d.setPaint(Color.red);
//example :     g2d.setFont(new Font("Serif", Font.BOLD, 15));
g2d.setFont(new Font(fontName, Font.BOLD, size));
String s = "Hello, world!";
// assuming x & y is set using graphic's font metrics
g2d.drawString(s, x, y);
g2d.dispose();

Excerpt from sun documentation

getGraphics

public Graphics getGraphics() This method returns a Graphics2D, but is here for backwards compatibility. createGraphics is more convenient, since it is declared to return a Graphics2D.

This does not really mean that you should not use getGraphics API. Just that the above code worked for me :)