Text is not displayed in Flash Sites

kiezpro

Ever since I installed Gentoo on my machines, I have the problem that on some websites using Flash, there's no text displayed inside the Flash Applets. I can select the invisible text, copy/paste it into some editor and read what's supposed to be there, but the text itself is not visible. An example for a site like this would be http://www.funkstorung.com/
Does anyone know how to fix this?

blaster999 · Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 2:19 am Post subject:

Try installing windoze TTF fonts. Also, upgrade the netscape-flash (if you hadn't done it already).
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kiezpro · Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 2:33 am Post subject:

I have corefonts installed, and my Flash plugin is the latest non-masked version (6.0.81).

blaster999 · Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 2:46 am Post subject:

Well, you can install the latest masked (I use it without any problems and it works perfectly - much better than 6).
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Sastraxi · Apprentice Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 258

I have the same problem with 7.0.25 =/
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kiezpro · Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 5:50 am Post subject:

It seems to work for me with 7.0.25, but I haven't tested too many sites yet...

krader · Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 4:06 pm Post subject:

I have the same problem, and I've been looking for some answer. I have found a post about the same problem, but under Debian. I appears than one person could solve it, but another didn't. I can't properly understand all they talk about. Can anyone read that post and try to port it to gentoo???

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/194004

Also, I have to say that when I installed gentoo, and emerge netscape-flash, it worked property, but now it doesn't. The only thing it did was install windoze fonts, and some artistic fonts that I previously had in mandrake, that i found in knoppix (like "DirtyBaker'sDozen", "Golden Girdle", etc). I anyone has installed manually this fonts, can you post your XF11Config file, at least, the fonts dir part??

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krader · Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 3:59 pm Post subject:

It worked!!!
I supposed it was a font problem, but I had also installed windoze fonts. I had copyed them into /usr/share/fonts/TTF, but it didn't worked. So I decided to copy the same ones to the directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF and then I ran "/etc/init.d/xfs restart". It sow the changes in the directory and indexed it. After finish, i ran opera and point to macromedia site and.... I can read all the texts!!!!!!

I hope you can also solve it

piefke · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 57

He,

same problem here, but no solution yet. Tried all flash ebuilds, loaded it seperately from macromedia.com .. flash works, but on most pages without text (there is nothing in rightclick->settings, too). I emerged urw-fonts, corefonts, copied fonts from windows and put the directories into /etc/X11/fs/config . It is possible to use them in other programs. Reading the text from the *swf with gflashplayer didn´t work, nor as root. If the text is within a editing area, I can successfully copy it into another window.
i´m using xorg´s xserver.

piefke

blaster999 · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 9:21 am Post subject:

I bet you are missing some fonts. Do you have xfs running? try hacking its options (in /etc/X11/fs/config is I am not mistaken).
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piefke · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 57

xfs is running and working. added so much fonts to get around this issue, but nothing helps. the installer said, urw-fonts and ttfonts are needed. which fonts did they mean with ttfonts? the normal ttf from the xorg package?

piefke

edit: i executed gflashplayer through strace and saw this:

piefke · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 57

couldn´t believe it, i have a solution!
flash had problems parsing my /etc/X11/fs/config, cause there was a newline after "catalogue =".
so it tried opening the fonts.dir inside the directory " " (the whitespace after "catalogue"), ending up in ignoring the other directories.

cyner · n00b Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 31 Location: Sweden

ataraxic · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 74 Location: Brescia

Thx guys!!

This problem has worried me for 2 weeks!!

Now with:

meowsqueak · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:53 am Post subject:

Unfortunately /etc/X11/fs/config is a zero-byte file on my system. I haven't found a way around this flash problem yet.

ataraxic · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 74 Location: Brescia

meowsqueak · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 8:26 pm Post subject:

meowsqueak · Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 6:28 am Post subject:

Ok, strange thing - this solved my problem completely on one Gentoo installation, but with another almost identical one it still has a zero-byte /etc/X11/fs/config file. I've set font-server in USE flags, re-emerged twice now, but it's still zero bytes (even if I delete it before emerging).

flokno · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:25 pm Post subject:

meowsqueak: same problem here with empty config file, submitted a bug report http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109655

flokno · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 3:16 pm Post subject:

what helped is if fontserver config file is empty:
delete /etc/X11/fs/config and reemerge xorg-x11

meowsqueak · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 3:37 pm Post subject:

flokno · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:19 pm Post subject:

/etc/X11/fs/config:

meowsqueak · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:29 pm Post subject: