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cezarrangel

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Registered: 2013-02-11

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(solved)windows fonts make firefox crash

hi Ihave installed windows fonts to my system. Everyhting seemed ok. but after some time firefox crashed. no fonts could be seen on the opened pages. after I have removed the link it does not crash any more.
I copied the windows fonts  to my home directory and then I created the symbolic link

1) #mount /dev/sda1 /mnt (I mouted the partition where windows is in /dev/sda1)
2)#cp /mnt/Windows/Fonts /home/cezar/Fontes (I copied the WindowsFonts to the /home/cezar/Fontes I created)
3)#ln -s /home/cezar/Fontes/Fonts /usr/share/fonts/WindowsFonts (I created the symbolic link)

I changed the fonts in settings >appearance > fonts

Everything seemed ok. After a while of happiness, firefox crashed and no more fonts anywhere, only images.

I would like to use the windowsfonts.

Last edited by cezarrangel (2014-06-15 11:03:26)

ids1024

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Re: (solved)windows fonts make firefox crash

Have you tried copying the files instead of symbolic links?

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stevenhoneyman

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Re: (solved)windows fonts make firefox crash

$ cp -v /mnt/Windows/Fonts/*.ttf ~/.fonts
$ fc-cache -vf

then restart Firefox

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cezarrangel

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Registered: 2013-02-11

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Re: (solved)windows fonts make firefox crash

thank you so much. I followed all the steps and got no error message. but when I restarted the system there are no new fonts available. just the same. I do not understand as there was no error warning.

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

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Re: (solved)windows fonts make firefox crash

no fonts could be seen on the opened pages

I bet you've screwed up the permissions on the files/dirs, so that your normal user cannot *read* the font files.

The root user can generate fontconfig cache files (via fc-cache), and your normal user can read those *cache* files, but your normal user cannot read the *font* files - so you end up with blank fonts.

It sure would be nice if fontconfig/freetype displayed a sensible error message, in this situation

cezarrangel

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Registered: 2013-02-11

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Re: (solved)windows fonts make firefox crash

that is it brebs, the permissions. thanks. it has been solved.