[gobolinux-users] Fonts with Macromedia Flash 7

[Rafael Guterres Jeffman]

Thank you, really.

-- Rafael.
... noiseless ..

Hisham Muhammad wrote:

> 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
> ---
> 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.
> ---
>
> 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,
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