[gobolinux-users] Fonts with Macromedia Flash 7

[Hisham Muhammad]

Hello,

I've been having a problem with text display for a while with
Macromedia Flash 7 and only today I decided to search for the
solution. I thought others might be going through the same thing, so
I'm sharing the (simple) solution here:

The FAQ says:
http://macromedia.mplug.org/faq.html
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11. Most text is failing to display on Flash sites!

   The plugin has bugs where it makes bad assumptions about the font
configuration.
   For this reason, it fails to find fonts on newer versions of X.org.  You can
   workaround this problem in the short-term by using these commands as root.
          mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/
       ln -s /etc/X11/fs/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config
      Read Red Hat Bugzilla #184028 for more information about this problem.
   Ultimately Macromedia must fix this bug in a future version of their plugin.
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Looking at my /Programs/Xorg/Current/lib/X11/fs/config file, I found
some incorrect font paths there. These incorrect paths are not used
normally by Xorg because we don't use the old xfs font server, relying
on xorg.conf and fonts.conf instead, but seems that Flash is the last
program that still relies on this file. So I changed the "catalogue"
line to:

catalogue = /Files/Fonts/Misc/,/Files/Fonts/TrueType/,/Files/Fonts/Type1/,/Files/Fonts/CID/,
/Files/Fonts/75dpi/,/Files/Fonts/100dpi/

(all of the above in one line), restarted Konqueror and now text displays fine.

I'm also saving this in a 'Tips' page in the wiki for future reference.

Hope this helps,