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Hello,
I tried searching but couldn't find anything relevant. I am running KDE with Microsoft fonts installed and working properly in Google Chrome. When I use Firefox, most pages render properly except for pages on Google sites where the text doesn't render at all. What I get is a white page with some images or dropdown arrows, but no visible text. The Google pages are calling for Arial in the CSS, and as far as I can tell, Arial is installed and working properly otherwise.
In case it is relevant, I installed the Windows 7 Fonts by copying them from a Windows 7 backup:
sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/win7
sudo cp /home/daryl/Backups/Software/Windows\ Software/Windows\ 7\ Fonts/* /usr/share/fonts/win7
sudo fc-cache -vf
sudo mkfontscale
sudo mkfontdirDoes anyone have any suggestions for troubleshooting this? Any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Daryl
Last edited by daryl314 (2013-12-20 12:03:53)
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Is Arial one of the fonts included? I haven't had any luck installing the google fonts because I'm running out of temporary space when building the package in yaourt. I'd like to avoid installing such a massive package if I can avoid it.
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You can tell yaourt to build somewhere else, use --tmp commandline switch or edit /etc/yaourtrc, uncomment and change
#TMPDIR="/tmp"to somewhere else.
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Unfortunately installing ttf-google-fonts-hg didn't fix the problem
With some further experimentation, it looks like Firefox is having an issue reading my Microsoft fonts, and I suspect that something may have went wrong when I tried to install them.
If I set the Firefox font configuration to force pages to use non-Microsoft fonts, google pages render properly
If I set the Firefox font configuration to force pages to use Microsoft fonts, nothing renders properly
If I allow pages to choose their own fonts, google (which requests Arial in its CSS) doesn't render properly, and other pages do render properly
If I change the system font to Arial, squares show up in the Google Chrome address bar instead of letters
Last edited by daryl314 (2013-12-19 12:25:08)
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Follow the advice wrt Arial fonts for Steam https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/St … m_on_Linux
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Installing ttf-microsoft-arial from the AUR fixed the problem, as did installing the fonts using the KDE font manager instead of on the command line. Thanks for your help!
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