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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:05:06
Message-Id: z2x58965d8a1004151125m8307180ci924441f28ceb1d83@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app by Mike Edenfield
1 On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Mike Edenfield <kutulu@××××××.org> wrote:
2 > On 4/15/2010 12:28 AM, Dale wrote:
3 >> Paul Hartman wrote:
4 >>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Tony Miller<mcfiredrill@×××××.com>
5 >>> wrote:
6 >>>
7 >>>> Hi, I've noticed that in linux(in all browsers), I cannot see the text
8 >>>> on this page.
9 >>>>
10 >>>> http://musictheory.net/lessons/html/id10_en.html
11 >>>>
12 >>>> There is supposed to be different text each time you hit the 'next'
13 >>>> slide, but I see none. Kinda sucks because this site is very useful.
14 >>>>
15 >>>> I have www-plugins/adobe-flash version 10.0.45.2 installed.
16 >>>>
17 >>> Works for me using 64-bit adobe-flash-10.0.45.2-r1 in every browser I
18 >>> tried. I see things like:
19 >>>
20 >>> • Clefs assign individual notes to certain lines or spaces.
21 >>> • Two clefs are normally used: The Treble and Bass clefs.
22 >>> • The first clef we will discuss is the Treble Clef (also called the G
23 >>> Clef).
24 >>> • The staff line which the clef wraps around (shown above in red) is
25 >>> known as G. Any note placed on this line becomes G.
26 >>> • The note on the space above G is A. (Remember, there is not an "H"
27 >>> note).
28 >
29 >> Since you know more about music than me, I may be seeing the same thing
30 >> you described. I couldn't remember what some of the things were
31 >> called. I only took piano lessons when I was a kid. Based on you
32 >> description, it may be working the same here.
33 >
34 > No... he's actually quoting the text that should be on the page, not
35 > describing the musical elements. It's a series of bullet points
36 > describing in words what is displayed above it.
37 >
38 > So clearly you're not seeing what he is :)
39 >
40 > On the plus side: Paul Hartman is a genius; installing 'corefonts' has
41 > fixed a bunch of previously-broken Facebook games. But sadly, not this
42 > musictheory page, so I must still be missing the fonts.
43 >
44 > Paul, Is there a way to tell which font the Flash animation is trying to
45 > use?
46
47 I would also try media-fonts/freefont-ttf if you don't have that
48 installed. I decompiled the flash on that page and it's just using the
49 generic "_sans" font, which should let it use any sans-serif font on
50 your system. Maybe it can only use TTF fonts? I'm not really sure.
51
52 If all else fails, here is the complete list of font packages I have
53 installed on my machine:
54
55 media-fonts/artwiz-aleczapka-en-1.3
56 media-fonts/corefonts-1-r4
57 media-fonts/dejavu-2.30
58 media-fonts/encodings-1.0.3-r1
59 media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.1
60 media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi-1.0.1
61 media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-100dpi-1.0.2
62 media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-75dpi-1.0.2
63 media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-type1-1.0.2
64 media-fonts/font-alias-1.0.2
65 media-fonts/font-arabic-misc-1.0.1
66 media-fonts/font-bh-100dpi-1.0.1
67 media-fonts/font-bh-75dpi-1.0.1
68 media-fonts/font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi-1.0.1
69 media-fonts/font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi-1.0.1
70 media-fonts/font-bh-ttf-1.0.1
71 media-fonts/font-bh-type1-1.0.1
72 media-fonts/font-bitstream-100dpi-1.0.1
73 media-fonts/font-bitstream-75dpi-1.0.1
74 media-fonts/font-bitstream-speedo-1.0.1
75 media-fonts/font-bitstream-type1-1.0.1
76 media-fonts/font-cronyx-cyrillic-1.0.1
77 media-fonts/font-cursor-misc-1.0.1
78 media-fonts/font-daewoo-misc-1.0.1
79 media-fonts/font-dec-misc-1.0.1
80 media-fonts/font-ibm-type1-1.0.1
81 media-fonts/font-isas-misc-1.0.1
82 media-fonts/font-jis-misc-1.0.1
83 media-fonts/font-micro-misc-1.0.1
84 media-fonts/font-misc-cyrillic-1.0.1
85 media-fonts/font-misc-ethiopic-1.0.1-r1
86 media-fonts/font-misc-meltho-1.0.1
87 media-fonts/font-misc-misc-1.1.0
88 media-fonts/font-mutt-misc-1.0.1
89 media-fonts/font-schumacher-misc-1.1.0
90 media-fonts/font-screen-cyrillic-1.0.2
91 media-fonts/font-sony-misc-1.0.1
92 media-fonts/font-sun-misc-1.0.1
93 media-fonts/font-util-1.1.1-r1
94 media-fonts/font-winitzki-cyrillic-1.0.1
95 media-fonts/font-xfree86-type1-1.0.2
96 media-fonts/freefonts-0.10-r3
97 media-fonts/intlfonts-1.2.1
98 media-fonts/lfpfonts-fix-0.83-r2
99 media-fonts/lfpfonts-var-0.84
100 media-fonts/terminus-font-4.30
101 media-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera-1.10-r3
102 media-fonts/unifont-5.1.20080914
103 media-fonts/urw-fonts-2.4.9
104 media-fonts/x11fonts-jmk-3.0-r1

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app Mike Edenfield <kutulu@××××××.org>
[gentoo-user] Re: no text in certain flash app walt <w41ter@×××××.com>