Fonts messed up in flash plugin

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enigma_0Z · Post by **enigma_0Z** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 4:27 am

Alright, I just installed firefox 1.0-pre2, and now the fonts in my flash plugin are really screwy. How can I fix this? I think that it is simply pointint to the wrong font (it's one of the novelty fonts in the 6000 font archive).

iainvt · Post by **iainvt** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 5:40 am

I HAVE A FLASH ISSUE AS WELL, POSTED HERE TO KEEP TOPICS TOGETHER, i CANNOT USE MY CURSOR ARROW KEYS IN FLASH PROGRAMMES, ANY IDEAS?

Peach · Post by **Peach** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 10:30 am

iainvt wrote:I HAVE A FLASH ISSUE AS WELL, POSTED HERE TO KEEP TOPICS TOGETHER, i CANNOT USE MY CURSOR ARROW KEYS IN FLASH PROGRAMMES, ANY IDEAS?

I have the same problem too.. .seems like flash uses a different font for Arial...

ps: pls don't shout

iainvt · Post by **iainvt** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 6:10 pm

sorry not shouting, caps lock was stuck.

enigma_0Z · Post by **enigma_0Z** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 8:55 pm

Hmm, there is no "arial" font in linux... perhaps I can copy it from windoze. maybe that would fix it?

Peach · Post by **Peach** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:10 am

enigma_0Z wrote:Hmm, there is no "arial" font in linux... perhaps I can copy it from windoze. maybe that would fix it?

you can have it emerging the "corefonts" packet... but in my case the problem remains

iainvt · Post by **iainvt** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:39 am

how do I set default to ariel

fctk · Post by **fctk** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 11:43 am

@enigma_0Z
can you make a screenshot? also, can you go to www.gazzetta.it and tell me if you see wrong fonts?

enigma_0Z · Post by **enigma_0Z** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 4:44 pm

The website that you said, the text wasn't part of the flash... try these websites instead:

http://www.homestarrunner.com (look at the text at the bottom, it should be arial)
http://www.purevolume.com/relientk (look at the font in the player on the right, also you should be able to do any artist, I just picked Relient K)

And uhh, I could make all the screenshots that I wanted, but I don't have anywhere on the internet to upload & hotlink them...

Actually, I saw something called ImageShack. anyone know what that's all about?

fctk · Post by **fctk** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 5:05 pm

try this:
# cd /usr/share/fonts
# ln -s corefonts truetype

mooseboy · Post by **mooseboy** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 7:52 am

I have a similar problem, except that I have missing text altogether. For example, on the homestarrunner.com site, there's no text at the bottom. I think it's the result of a bitmap font taking over for the ttf, but I don't really know how to fix it aside from pulling all of my fontpaths and starting from scratch.

labba · Post by **labba** » Mon May 30, 2005 6:56 pm

Hi!
I've exactly the same problem. Unfortunately I didn't find this thread, so I created a new one:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-34 ... +ugly.html

Did anyone ever solve this problem?