fonts - non other than windows available? - PC-BSD Forums

Lazy · #1 08-16-2008, 07:18 PM

I noticed I couldn't read all the code-quotes on the forum, but after installing the windows fonts this seemed ok.

Now I just saw on another forum (4front - for audio oss) again code that's unreadable (undecipherable gibberish).

When typing "fonts" in the search of pbdir though, the only result is the set of windows fonts that I already have installed.
... :?:

sblevin · #2 08-17-2008, 01:46 AM

Give links to some dodgy looking posts, and what browser/version/PC-BSD version you are using. Might be valuable to see if others with the same browser/OS version get different results - maybe seeing that will trigger an "Oh I remember that one ..." memory from someone who fixed it earlier.

The only really mongrel font thing I've seen so far is some "pleughch" looking fonts in a couple of wine apps, and setting custom font size inside some forum software resulting in microfilm

This is unreadable

Like that. Code for above was:

Code:

This is unreadable

That text is too small to read, and I'm in XP running Firefox so it's not a PC-BSD thing.

Lazy · #3 08-17-2008, 08:24 AM

Originally Posted by sblevin

Give links to some dodgy looking posts, and what browser/version/PC-BSD version you are using. Might be valuable to see if others with the same browser/OS version get different results - maybe seeing that will trigger an "Oh I remember that one ..." memory from someone who fixed it earlier...

I'm using Firefox 3.0(win) on PCBSD 1.5.1
Here's a link to another post of mine, where the code in the 1st and 3rd message look weird:
http://4front-tech.com/forum/viewtopic. ... d02c5e0cd6

EDIT: I opened it with Konqueror just now, and then the code looks normal, so I suppose it has nothing to do with installed fonts after all, but it's rather a browser-thing?

sblevin · #4 08-17-2008, 08:42 AM

My results on PC-BSD 1.5.1

Konqueror: Fine
Firefox3.0_2-PV0.pbi: Fine
WinFirefox31.1.0-PV0.pbi: SPAZZO! Awefull!

The forum bits surrounded by [code] tags looks like asci, punctuation marks and non English charactors.

This "may" be due to the custom wine version that wraps this PBI is itself unaware of other fonts on your system.

I'm trying stuff now and will keep in touch. (I need to learn about fonts and wine anyway - thanks for the nudge

sblevin · #5 08-17-2008, 09:46 AM

OK - Gone as far as I can with this (Canadian Club getting the better of me ...)

code {
font-family: Courier, 'Courier New', sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #006600;
background-color: #FAFAFA; border: #D1D7DC; border-style: solid;
border-left-width: 1px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px
}

That was in the 4front forum page styles section of the webpage. I put it into a local webpage, marked a section of text as style code, and POW! It looks the same - seems to render properly in the other browers though (FF3 native and konq)

I hope that helps you or someone else get a handle on what might be going on.

Below is the local page I used to generate the error.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
http-equiv="content-type">
<title>test.htm</title>
<style type="text/css">
.code {
font-family: Courier, 'Courier New', sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #006600;
background-color: #FAFAFA; border: #D1D7DC; border-style: solid;
border-left-width: 1px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
This is normal

<address>This is address</address>

<h1>This is heading 1
</h1>
<span class="code">This is courrier</span>

</body>
</html>

sblevin · #6 08-17-2008, 10:06 AM

OK
This DOES work
<html>
<head>
<title>test.htm</title>
<style type="text/css">
.code {
font-family: helvetica, sans-serif;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
This is normal

<span class="code">This is courrier</span>

</body>
</html>

This does NOT work....
(only change is swapped "courier" for "helvetica")

<html>
<head>
<title>test.htm</title>
<style type="text/css">
.code {
font-family: courier, sans-serif;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
This is normal

<span class="code">This is courrier</span>

</body>
</html>

Lazy · #7 08-18-2008, 03:05 PM

Originally Posted by sblevin

My results on PC-BSD 1.5.1

Konqueror: Fine
Firefox3.0_2-PV0.pbi: Fine
WinFirefox31.1.0-PV0.pbi: SPAZZO! Awefull!
...

I'm gonna have to stick with the WinFirefox though, because the regular FFox got continuous "unsupported browser" complaints from Google and other sites that I use a lot.

For now I'll just keep switching to Konqueror whenever a page is unreadable.

Lazy · #8 08-18-2008, 03:16 PM

Originally Posted by sblevin

OK
[b]This DOES work...

This is about css, right?
I'll have to find some time to finally learn how that works :?
I guess the difficulty is about the level of html, so I should be able to learn the basics at least.

Thanks for your replies!
I'll figure out the above when I learned some of css.