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FS#9894 - No text in adobe flash (flashplugin)

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Amine Haddad (aminehaddad) - Friday, 21 March 2008, 06:31 GMT-4
Last edited by Grigorios Bouzakis (dolby) - Friday, 09 May 2008, 15:19 GMT-4
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Unconfirmed
Assigned To Dale Blount (dale)
Operating System All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
The package 'extra/flashplugin' (9.0.115.0-2) must depend on 'gsfonts' in order for text to render inside flash animations (tested with firefox 2.0.0.12-2)

Steps to reproduce:
1. Uninstall gsfonts if previously installed
2. Restart browser
3. Visit a website which has text inside the flash application (such as youtube at the end of the video where they recommend other videos)

Solution:
1. Install gsfonts
2. Restart browser
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Comment by Justin H (orasis) - Monday, 24 March 2008, 03:34 GMT-4
I don't see how a dependency is considered a 'bug' - it's needed to run... Also fixing a bug in a closed source program (if one exists which I don't see here) is pretty much out of the hands of this community, it would have to be fixed by Adobe, so likewise the bug report would go to Adobe.
Comment by Sigmund Lahn (gnud) - Monday, 07 April 2008, 19:19 GMT-4
Justin, he didnt mean it was a bug in the flashplayer program, he meant it was a bug in the package (more specifically, in the PKGBUILD file). This is created and maintained by Arch developers.

However, I can't confirm this:
pacman -Rd gsfonts
firefox

and text in flash movies worked for me.

Perhaps this is an issue if other fonts are not installed?
Comment by Guillermo Aguilar Echavarría (moagech) - Wednesday, 07 May 2008, 21:51 GMT-4
I can reproduce this bug. I guess gsfonts just need to be added to PKGBUILD to get full functionality.

Pacman -Qi flasplugin shows

Depends On : mozilla-common libxt gtk2

an here is what pacman -Qs fonts shows before installing gsfonts,

local/fontsproto 2.0.2-1
X11 font extension wire protocol
local/t1lib 5.1.2-1
Library for generating character- and string-glyphs from Adobe Type 1 fonts
local/ttf-liberation 3-3
Red Hats Liberation fonts
local/xorg-fonts-100dpi 1.0.1-1 (xorg)
X.org 100dpi fonts
local/xorg-fonts-75dpi 1.0.1-2 (xorg)
X.org 75dpi fonts
local/xorg-fonts-alias 1.0.1-1
X.org font alias files
local/xorg-fonts-encodings 1.0.2-2
X.org font encoding files
local/xorg-fonts-misc 1.0.0-3
X.org misc fonts





Comment by Guillermo Aguilar Echavarría (moagech) - Wednesday, 07 May 2008, 23:31 GMT-4
I made a mistake and didnt check flashplugin versionin my previous comment , anyway this bug and solution is still valid with flashplugin 9.0.124.0-1.

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