Re: Linux, True Type Fonts and Flash Player

Posted: 02-16-2005, 02:30 PM
I also have problems about fonts... but not those, which you have.

I may help you about fonts. The 'installed fonts' may be two: those in the
Xserver, and those in 'fontconfig'. Maybe 'flash' uses fontconfig. Try to
configure your fontconfig, or your xserver, according to the possible
misconfiguration.

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Re: Linux, True Type Fonts and Flash Player
Posted: 02-26-2005, 06:16 PM
This is not a solution... but a little help in trying to solve the problem.

[ A user has experienced the problem with "wimpy player" which utilizes
dynamic text, and is unable to see the text in the player.
(www.wimpyplayer.com) ]

Hmm. Interesting. Flash handles text in two ways: 1) you can "embed" the font
into the swf. 2) you can cause the swf to use a kind of "default" text -- much
like in HTML, where you can specify "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif." Wimpy
utilizes the latter. Under this type of font display method, the swf/plugin is
dependent on comparable fonts within the end-users system. I have no idea how
the plugin actually makes the connection to the system to grab the proper
font... One would think that there is a default action in the plugin to use a
"fail-safe" font in the case that the requested font is not available -- i know
this type of behavior is in the windows and mac plugins.

What i might do to troubleshoot is ensure that "Arial", "Helvetica" or
"sans-serif" is defined within the OS... paying special attention to the upper
/ lower case of the font definitions and/or the dash between the sans-serif.
You might want to do a little testing with straight HTML. WHat i mean by this
is create some basic HTML that references "Arial", "Helvetica" or "sans-serif"
-- such as:

<p><font face="Arial">Test Type - Arial</font>

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