some text not displayed in flash applets - fonts

[John McPherson]

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree

ii firefox 3.0~rc1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
ii flashplugin-nonfree 9.0.124.0ubuntu2

some flash applets do not show some or all of the text that can be seen using flash on other operating systems. I figured out that if I install the msttcorefonts package, then the text shows up (after restarting firefox).

strace'ing firefox shows:
...
open("/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Arial.ttf", O_RDONLY) = 51
open("/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Arial_Bold.ttf", O_RDONLY) = 51
...

so it looks like flash plugin needs an Arial font or alias setup, which doesn't seem to be the case with a default ubuntu install.

example flash applet exhibiting this behaviour: http://www.grabaseat.co.nz/

[Fabio Duran Verdugo (fabioduran)]

Thanks for the report, could you test the same with flash 10 and report back? thanks in advance.

[John McPherson (jrm+launchpadbugs)]

Ubuntu 8.10 - firefox's about:plugins says "File name: libflashplayer.so Shockwave Flash 10.0 r15"

if I rename the msttcorefonts Arial and Arial_Bold ttfs out of the way, and run fc-cache and restart firefox, then it seems to work ok (well, at least for my test site above).

So either the flashplugin behaviour has now been fixed or the system now has the required aliases.

[bigal50 (bigal50)]

Thanks John for the reply and helping to make Ubuntu better for all.

Maybe this should go from
Fix Released > Closed

BigAl50

[John McPherson (jrm+launchpadbugs)]

yeah, this can be closed. I thought the submitter was allowed to close their own bugs, but I don't see anywhere on the page where I can mark it as "done", otherwise I would have done so already :)

The only options I see under status are "New, Incomplete, Invalid, Confirmed, In Progress, Fix Committed, Fix Released".

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

msttcorefonts is really not needed nowadays; purge the msttcorefonts-installer package to get rid of all fonts pulled in.