Flash fonts not displayed!

freekamail · 04-03-2006, 01:26 PM

I am using Ubuntu 5.10 woth firefox 1.5.0.1 I am unable to see any Flash fonts in the browser, attached is a screenshot of what I see, I cannot even see the text for 'Settings' in Firefox.

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/5...eenshot8qz.png

Please help

macemoneta · 04-03-2006, 02:05 PM

Here you go, from the FAQ:

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

freekamail · 04-05-2006, 07:24 AM

sorry but it still doesn't work!

as there is no directory named /etc/X11/fs in my Linux distribution

freekamail · 04-05-2006, 08:13 AM

Ok, found a solution, just install msttcorefonts package and it resolves the problem like a charm

macemoneta · 04-05-2006, 08:15 AM

It looks like there's an additional requirement, according to this Ubuntu bug: It is solved installing msttcorefonts package (multiverse/x11)...

freekamail · 04-07-2006, 07:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by macemoneta

It looks like there's an additional requirement, according to this Ubuntu bug: It is solved installing msttcorefonts package (multiverse/x11)...

I don't know about that but it waorks without fail in my case, anyway what is the additional requirement that you are talking about, I can't seem to understand it nor find it on the link you posted