417310 - Browser window UI elements render Type 1 fonts as symbols.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 396315

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[equazcion]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020514 Firefox/3.0b3

Windows XP SP2, Firefox 3 Beta 3 English. 

Browser window text renders as symbols for elements whose Windows font settings is set to a Type 1 font. 

I originally installed FF3 while I had FuturaMedium, a Type 1 font, set for many Windows elements (set via the Display control panel applet). I've been using this setting for a very long time and it's never given me any trouble in any program, including Firefox 2. Firefox 3 was giving me nothing but symbols where that font was supposed to show up. See http://www.bitzearch.com/sample.jpg for a screeshot. 

I've since tried other fonts based on a forum suggestion and found that the same problem occurs with other Type 1 fonts, but not with other font types.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to Control Panel -> Display -> Appearence -> Advanced
2.Choose a Type 1 font for the Menu item
3.Open Firefox 3
Actual Results:  
Firefox 3 browser window displays unreadable lines of symbols in place of menu names and expanded menu items. 

Expected Results:  
Displayed readable menu names and items.

Comment 1

[equazcion]

Attachment: Screenshot of font display issue.

Comment 2

[equazcion]

Could be the same as bug 396315 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=396315), which is a page rendering issue, rather than an issue of fonts rendering in window elements. Someone may want to merge the two if they are actually the same issue.

Comment 4

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

I decided to undupe this even though it is obviously the same issue.  Although the other bug is still not marked fixed, it's testcase now passes.  Set a dependency instead.

Comment 5

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

Except, rather oddly, I am also unable to duplicate the issue in this bug either.

Comment 6

[equazcion]

That's strange. I just tried a few other fonts and made sure to start Firefox in safe mode, just to be sure it's not a theme or extension issue, and I still get the bug consistently. 

Comment 7

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

Actually not so strange.  Turns out the Futura medium font you originally posted on the forums about is not a type 1 font on my system.  Guess I should have checked.  I do see this issue with type 1 fonts.

Comment 8

[equazcion]

Ah, that explains it.

Comment 9

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

This issue is at least similar to that described in bug 396315.  However, the patch checked in there has no effect on this issue.

Comment 10

[fyc]

I have had the same issue from FF beta 1 through to now; my OS is Windows Vista. My particular problem was with setting Type 1 Helvetica as my UI font.

Comment 11

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

This is essentially bug 396315.  At this point, I think we're going to disable Type 1 fonts entirely, but that'll be up to Stuart.  Bouncing over to him to decide one way or the other.

Comment 12

[equazcion]

What would "disabling" Type 1 fonts mean for those who have a Type 1 font set as their font for window elements? Would Firefox default to a different font for those elements, or what?

Comment 13

[xcio3qp02]

I am having the exact same problem as posted by Hillel Aftel except that the problem remains regardless of which font I am using, Type 1 or otherwise. I get the garbled menus and buttons, etc., all the time.

Running on Windows XP Home with SP2 English, Firefox 3 beta 3 English.

FYI, I had the same problem with FF 3 Beta 2 also.

Comment 14

[Stuart Parmenter]

re-duping. i'll be taking a look at type1 fonts soon.

Comment 15

[xcio3qp02]

Running on Windows XP Home with SP2 English, Firefox 3 beta 4 English.

I installed Firefox 3 Beta 4 and experimented with all sorts of fonts and colors for about 2 hours. I can report partial success. Except as noted below, the non Type 1 fonts are now working normally. I am using Arial as my FF Font. I also set that as my Windows system font. However, no matter what font I set anywhere, all tooltips in Firefox are garbled. In addition, in all Firefox dialog windows the button text is all garbled, i.e. OK, Cancel, Help are garbled.

In sum, Type 1 fonts cannot be used. Non-Type 1 fonts work well except on all tooltips and all buttons on FF dialog windows. On those elements, nothing seems to work.

Comment 16

[equazcion]

Non Type-1 fonts worked fine for me in FF3 beta 3. Haven't tried beta 4 yet. 

Comment 17

[xcio3qp02]

I found the problem. My system still had some Type 1 fonts as the default. Once I changed the whole system to non-Type 1 fonts FF 3 Beta 4 worked fine.

I sure hope this can be rectified because I really don't wish to use only non-Type 1 fonts in my entire system just to accommodate FF.

Good look, folks. Hope you fix it soon. Thanks.