Re: Mozilla fonts
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 10:31:26AM +0000, Keith Furman wrote:
> thanks for responses. my system already has TT fonts (copied over from my
> Windows installation). I swicthed on TT support in
> /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref/unix.js. When I fire up Moz, it takes its
> time installing the new fonts, until an error occurs:
>
> <snip>
> font /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/zorque.tt 226 glyphs (2 invalid)
> font /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/zrnic___.tt 527 glyphs (351 invalid)
> font /usr/share/fonts/msfonts/fonts.cache-1 FreeType failed to open,
> error=0
>
> Moz starts up anyway; but when I go Preferences->Appearances->Fonts, it
> crashes.
>
> The above behavior is reproducible.
>
> ls -l of /usr/share/fonts/ :
>
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 16 16:54 vera
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 17 00:31 type1
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Jul 17 00:31 msfonts
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52 Jul 20 23:33 fonts.cache-1
>
> cat fonts.cache-1:
>
> "vera" 0 ".dir"
> "msfonts" 0 ".dir"
> "type1" 0 ".dir"
>
> there is a similar fonts.cache-1 inside msfonts. Apparently Moz does not
> like these files.
>
> Help?
>
> -keith
>
>
>
Hi-
Unfortunately, I have never seen that behavior on mozilla by switching
on the fonts in the file. I also copied over TT fonts from a windows
install and used a downloaded mozilla. I reread over a few of the
websites which include hacking mozilla files to get better font support
and I did not see any additional references to the problem. One other
thing you could do is find an XFT enabled mozilla package. As an
example, I recently found a Mozilla-Firebird XFT enabled tarball which I
downloaded. It was built on debian unstable so it works very well and
finds all the fonts correctly.
Have you checked out Mozilla-Firebird? Its available as a debian
package as well.
Sorry I don't have a good answer on the font issue with the downloaded
Mozilla.
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