NoOp wrote:
Stanimir, why is it that I am able to display wingdings on my linux
version(s) if the issue has anything to do with Gecko et al? The font
is from my Windows system& I've show screenshots of the same.
I just verified that placing the wingdings fonts in my ~/.fonts
folder immediately renders the wingdings on
http://www.alanwood.net/demos/wingdings.html
1. linux test partition with Ubuntu 11.04 installed. No ~/.fonts
folder, no windings.ttf font installed on the system.
2. Went to http://www.alanwood.net/demos/wingdings.html and verified
that the wingdings do not show up in SeaMonkey 2.3.3.
3. With SeaMonkey 2.3.3 still open, I create a ~/.fonts folder and
copy the Windows wingding (wingding.ttf, wingdng2.ttf, and
wingdng3.ttf) fonts to the ~/.folder. Immediately after doing so I
reload http://www.alanwood.net/demos/wingdings.html and the wingdings
appear w/o issue.
There is nothing magical about the SeaMonkey on my test system; it's
a clean profile, downloaded directly and installed from Mozilla
(also tested in a dev build of Ubuntu that I'm testing). Same results
with FF 6.0.2 /and/ FF 9.0a1 (2011-09-12) Nightly. I can provide
screenshots of those as well. And it's nothing to do with my linux
versions; I tested in Ubuntu 10.04, 11.04, and 11.10 (beta). Also
tested with SeaMonkey 2.4b1 and 2.4b2.
So, not trying to be confrontational here, but it seems to me that
this is a /Windows/ build/system issue, rather than a Gecko et al
issue. I drop in the ttf font, reload the page, and the the page
displays with all wingdings in place. Remove the font and they go
away.
OK, so how do you account for Windows systems where the font is
installed but SM won't use it? My Windows XP SP3 lists it in the
C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\ directory, complete with .TTF extension, describes it
as a TrueType font, and makes it available in other applications, which
are happy to use it without difficulty. If it were an OS issue, I would
expect other apps to have difficulty, too....
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Paul B. Gallagher
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