Closed Bug 308416 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Does not recognize SVG files when gdiplus.dll is missing

Categories

(Core :: SVG, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
SVG
Version:
1.8 Branch
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: nick, Unassigned)

Details

I've installed Firefox 1.5b1 in a co-worker machine (Windows 2000). When I tried
to browse SVG files (from http://www.croczilla.com/svg/samples/ ) FireFox opened
the dialog it uses for unknown files! It asked me if I wanted to open the SVG
file with Internet Explorer. One relevant thing is that the machine has had
Adobe SVG viewer plugin installed. I deleted the MSIE explorer associwtion and
restarted Firefox, it still refused to normally show the SVG files.
WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908
Firefox/1.4

Is the svg.enabled preference set to true?
(In reply to comment #1)
> Is the svg.enabled preference set to true?

I've checked that. Yes, it was set to the default value.
Did you install gdiplus.dll (only Windows XP ships with it by default)?

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/gdiplus/
Assignee: nobody → general
Component: General → SVG
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: general → ian
Version: 1.5 Branch → 1.8 Branch
He seems to have only one copy of that DLL in "C:\Archivos de programa\Microsoft
Office\Visio Viewer" (not in PATH).

We didn't get any message complaining about the lack of such DLL...
No, you shouldn't. Firefox should behave exactly as if SVG wasn't supported at all.

You can try copying the file you found to somewhere in PATH or to your Firefox
install directory. If that doesn't work try the version from

http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6a63ab9c-df12-4d41-933c-be590feaa05a
It worked. But this isn't a very good situation. There should be a message
dialog  the first time the user access SVG content telling him that he need to
install this dll and pointing him to the download site. SVG is cited as one of
the big new things in this release and people will be surprised when it doesn't
work.
Summary: Does not recognize svg files → Does not recognize SVG files when gdiplus.dll is missing
See also bug 308130.
--> wontfix. were using cairo now.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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