On 09/12/2011 05:50 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: > 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.... >
Paul, I was referring to the Windows build of SeaMonkey, not a Window OS issue. Sorry for any confusion. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
