Hello everyone!
I am having some problem with fonts in some websites in firefox. The fonts will not be visible! The image should be self explanatory.

Let me add that I am trying to add support for unicode in linux something that I wasn't much familiar with up until now - so i messed a few things up before I managed to unicode in linux command line and konsole terminal.
additionally, I tried adding true type fonts (which I added in a new sub-folder /usr/share/fonts/ms-ttf) and run fc-cache. Moreover, I installed the fonts system-wide from within KDE system settings.

In the end: I am stuck with a semi-working firefox; facebook and digitalblasphemy.com to name a few don't show any fonts. gmail and other sites work fine. google-chrome has not been affected at all - all pages show up fine.

Also the extra 'ms-ttf' fonts that I installed in kde system-wide do not appear in libre-office in the available fonts.. I am not sure if this has to do with the more general mess i've caused or it is some more specific matter. I tried following http://www.vcn.bc.ca/~dugan/slackware-fonts/ dugan tips in compiling firefox but I decided not to install requiredbuilder in order to proceed with the installation - I ended up installing frefox-3.6.12 from -current, but the problem persists.

Do you have any idea how I could solve the 2 problems? (firefox and libre office)?

Thank you for your help!

PS: removing my ~/.mozilla folder doesn't remedy the problem either.. well i didn't think it would, but i'm desperate and had to try :P

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You have to put that folder into /usr/share/fonts/TTF (or some others -- see /etc/fonts/fonts.conf) for the system to recognize them.

I don't think that .ttf fonts need to be specifically placed in a */TTF folder. I usually add fonts to a "$HOME/.fonts/user" directory, run mkfontscale && mkfontdir && fc-cache -fv . and those fonts show up everywhere.

@nass, Did you make /etc/fonts/local.conf like the guide suggests? You also might want to add the font folder to your xorg.conf.

I don't know what version of Slackware you're running, but with newer X, you don't have to add fontpaths to an xorg.conf for user-installed fonts to work.

EDIT: This is assuming, of course, that your custom folder is either in $HOME/.fonts or /usr/share/fonts. I know it works, coz I don't even have an xorg.conf file.

well my ms-ttf folder is under /usr/share/fonts/.
I have added local.conf in /etc/fonts/ to include only the ms-ttf folder.
xorg.conf is also updated to include the same path.
I run the full command: 'mkfontscale && mkfontdir && fc-cache -fv'

the output is the following:
I guess these 'problems' are not fatal or the fc-cache wouldn't succeed?

Then, I re-added the ms-ttf folder in kde's font installer settings

and still both problems persist!

What I meant is that he needs to put new fonts in to a font folder specified in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf (I said "or some others"); in this case TTF is just for easy administration as his fonts are TrueType.

Of course he can just make a .conf file in /etc/fonts/ and specify a place for his fonts anywhere.

Through the output, I can guess that you fonts are broken.

For Microsoft TrueType fonts, you can build the package from SBo:
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13...webcore-fonts/

Or if you don't know how to use a SlackBuild yet, a quick solution is get the package from alien's repo:
http://ftp.slackware.org.uk/people/a...0-noarch-1.tgz

then just issue this command as root:
installpkg /path/to/corefonts-1.0-noarch-1.tgz

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it doesn't look like ALL the fonts are broken...
Arial, Times New Roman, etcetc don't show up in the list.
Infact these broken fonts remind me of some Autocad specific fonts and I don't mind if those are broken...

Do you really think the problem exists for all fonts?

I shall try the slackbuild anyway - i didn't know of its existence. and let you know

well that did it.
cruedly copying the fonts from an ms-windows partition is NOT the way forward apparently..

using webcore-fonts is much advised!

Thank you.