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Any chance you can install Arial and Verdana on your system?
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Eeek, i hope you're not saying that arial and verdana are required.
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i would suggest that flickr opens up the flash on flickr to also run the free, open source and comprehensive Bitstream Vera fonts if arial or verdana are not available.
'bitstream vera sans' in particular is extremely similar to verdana.
i think the fonts also come bundled in a bunch of linux distributions, but i'm not sure how many and which ones.
Posted 92 months ago.
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The thing is, Flash doesn't work like HTML - you can't specify 'failover' fonts, just a single font, and sometimes, if that is not available, the system will choose another. (You can also embed fonts in the flash file, but that is a huge waste of bandwidth and time on both ends).
Asking the 0.1% of people who have problems with the text-y Flash on linux to install a font seems more reasonable than asking the other 99.9% (and perhaps some of the 0.1% as well) to install a font ;)
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hm .. forgot about that.
what about defaulting to "_sans"? i suppose that would create its own problems.
Posted 92 months ago.
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I just found this (lame me): TextField.getFontList
Using that, I could detect if arial and verdana are installed , and if not use another font. Would take some work though.
Posted 92 months ago.
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Ok, Flickr Flash movies now use [arial, helvetica, _sans], in that order of preference, and [verdana, lucida, _sans], in that order of preference, depending on which fonts are installed on the system.
I'd love to see a screenshot of Organizr on your Linux system now, darren131.
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I have Arial, Verdana, sans-serif, tahoma...infact i have all the common windoze/mac fonts.
sorry for the delay - but here are a couple screenshots:
flickr.com/photos/darren/1617922/
flickr.com/photos/darren/1617921/
Posted 91 months ago.
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FYI
I reinstalled my OS and it all works as it should :)
Thanks for all the advice!
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Glad to hear it darren. (I'll just ask people to reinstall their OS when they report this problem in the future, heh).
BTW, based on yoru screenshots, it looked like Flash was substituting some Serif font for arial and verdana, and that font was only working at certain pixel sizes. Odd, that.
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OK, here it is 4 months later, and I am having the same problem as darren131 reported originally. I'm using Ubuntu Linux (preview version of the forthcoming "Hoary" 5.1), Firefox 1.0, with the Flash 7 plugin installed. Once I got the correct flash (meaning "real") flash plugin installed, everything seemed to work fine for me here at Flickr, except the items discussed here. Any further suggestions or updates?
Posted 88 months ago.
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I should have mentioned that this is a new install, and actually did two complete reinstalls during the past few days for documentation purposes. So, Eric, I've already done that part. ;-)
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For Ubuntu users - and probably many other users - search your apt/rpm repository for a package called "msttcorefonts". This handy little tool downloads the installers that Microsoft supplied a while ago "for cross platform developers" (all as .exe files, of course), extracts the ttf files and installs them. Same as lots of WINE helpers do.
I had this problem, and solved it using this. Whilst it's not ideal, it's good enough for those who aren't complete purists! =)
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Though it probably goes without saying: "msttcorefonts" is the package for Debian too.
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Flickr Flash movies now use [arial, helvetica, _sans], in that order of preference, and [verdana, lucida, _sans]
That didn't make any difference on my system, but msttcorefonts did fix it for me (Also using Ubuntu).
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hi guys, I had the similar problem with my system (Linux Debian/Firefox 1.0.2) and after reading this blog, it seems that you need to install gsfonts-x11.
Hope that helps,
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conquelicot, yes that did it! Thanks!
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Strange. I'm running Ubuntu Breezy, have flashplayer-mozilla, gsfonts-x11, and msttcorefonts all installed, but still no text in the Organizr. Hmmph.
Screenshot: www.flickr.com/photos/secretagentzero/93164882/
Any ideas?
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Just had the same issue using Kubuntu Breezy.
Solved by adding the breezy multiverse source in Adept and installing 'msttcorefonts' from the breezy multiverse.
Add the following source into your package manager or add directly to your sources.list file....
deb http: //us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy multiverse
Take out the space after the 'http://', flickr was messing it up otherwise.
Notice the location in the URL path, you're in US so you're OK, for me it was 'gb' for Great Britain (UK).
Now you can install msttcorefonts.
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Vinnn edited this topic 77 months ago.
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Running Ubuntu 5.10, Firefox 1.5.0.1 and Flash 7. Have the same problem.
Installed gsfonts-x11, it didn't help. Organizr loads without text.
Installed msttcorefonts, but now Firefox complains "A script in this movie is causing Macromedia Flash Player 7 to run slowly. If it continues to run, your computer may become unresponsive. Do you want to abort the script?" when Organizr is loading. The only button is "Okay". Pressing it cancels the script. The other options is to close the window with this message, which has the same effect as choosing "Okay".
I have an Athlon 800MHz machine and have never had such severe problems with other data-intensive Flash apps like the players on youtube.com or video.google.com. (Though fonts have never worked there either.)
Please advise. There are no flickr organization utilities for Linux so I'm left with manually paging through the HTML interface to annotate or organize my pictures.
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For Dapper Drake (k)ubuntu, install flashplugin-nonfree, gsfonts-x11, msttcorefonts
Posted 75 months ago.
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the flickr flash badge does not show if you use browser firefox. i can see it while using IE but if i open firefox the badge does not appear
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sosgatinhos edited this topic 75 months ago.
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Another me too.
Running a fresh install of Fedora 5 with all updates, Firefox 1.5.0.1 , Flash plugin 7.0 r63, all possible font packages, including Microsoft ones...
I see no text at all in Flickr's Organize page, Google Analytics, and other flash applications.
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I can't see any text in Flickr's Organizr either.
Using Firefox 1.5.0.3, KDE 3.5, Debian Unstable, Flash 7.0.63
I have msttcore fonts installed. I can use Arial or Verdana in OpenOffice documents, etc...
What's up? This bug hasn't been solved by using fontlist or some form of fallback when fonts were not available? Why it doesn't work for me even though I have the M$ fonts?
Posted 74 months ago.
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Fleury edited this topic 74 months ago.
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Fleury- read this post and the solution at the end and see if it helps:
www.flickr.com/forums/help/22231/
Posted 74 months ago.
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Fluery, I had this problem as well. Basically it seems somthing recently added in Debian unstable is breaking truetype font rendering with the Xorg X11 server.
I had to hand rebuilt the deforma x11 truetype font indices, and after that everything worked again.
I can explain what to do to fix it if you don't understand how to fix it yourself, but it is a little tedious to describe, so I won't add it here now incase it is redundant
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avidday edited this topic 74 months ago.
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Avidday, unfortunately I couldn't figure out how to fix it yet...
I tried update-fonts-dir and update-fonts-scale in all font folders but without success. Is that what I should have done?
Posted 74 months ago.
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That's the general idea, but I suspect that the Debian management scripts are what caused the breakage in the first place.
There are a few utilities you need to run by hand. Truetype fonts have a different scaling mechanism to other x11 font systems, and there is a special utility to built the fonts.scale file for them.
If you run the following command:
% xlsfonts | grep microsoft
and get nothing back, then you have the same problem I did.
So in the Truetype font directory (probably /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/) run with root priviliges:
% ttmkfdir ./
% mkfontdir ./
and then restart your X11 server. That should be all you need to do.
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Hey! I can see everything now :)
Avidday, thanks for your answer but it couldn't solve the problem for me. Btw, now I can see the text and xlsfonts still don't show any entry that matches "microsoft".
In my case, after apt-getting msttcorefonts they ended up in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts, but this folder wasn't in /etc/X11/fs/config ... I added this entry and now everything is fine.
Weird is that /usr/share/fonts was already there. I thought X would recursively look for fonts but it seems it doesn't.
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OK so you were using the X11 font server, not the built-in truetype module in Xorg. No matter, good to hear it works anyway.
Just another case of Debian unstable entropy getting in the way of the fun :)
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Yes... maybe because I was using XFree when I installed the system and then I moved to xorg
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What are you flickr guys derranged?!!!!
Wtf did you move the interface to flash version 8 when thats not available for linux......you absolute tools!!!!!
And dont start dribbling on about how 99% of the people on this planet drink bill gates milk. coz as far I remember flash version 7 ran jussssst fine on winblows.....
Now be a good little coding monkey and revert the flickr interface back to flash version 7......theres a good little monkey...(pat pat) there there..
(walks back to the lab muttering...'friggn microsoft, &*#)$ bloody tools, #*&^@) CRFASH BANG CLATTER, 'damn sheeples')
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airtonixdesign edited this topic 73 months ago.
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Where do you see that the interface has been changed to Flash 8? The original purpose of this thread a year and a half ago, had to do with Flash and Organizr and making fonts work properly under Linux. The newly released Organizr is no longer Flash based. Upload some photos and try it out. There *has* been suggestions that users grab the latest version of what was available for their platform.
(Locking thread as it deals with an issue that has long since passed.)
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Kevin (staff) edited this topic 73 months ago.
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So there you go; all web sites should revert to previous version of flash because Macromedia haven't got it together to make the latest version available to Linux users yet.
Actually, I've heard there is a world wide conspiracy by MS and Flash against airtronixdesign :)
Posted 73 months ago.
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