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:All About Linux: The Case of Some Flash Based Games Unable to Display Text...
All About Linux: The Case of Some Flash Based Games Unable to Display Text...
Jul 31, 2006, 04 :30 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (5297 reads)

[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for this link. ]

"One persistent problem I used to face while using GNU/Linux was when I visited sites containing certain flash based games. The games played well but they never displayed the text embedded in it. I thought that it was a drawback of the flash player ver 7 provided for Linux. It never occurred to me to dig into the problem and find why it was happening so.

"But recently, in the process of installing a software package, I installed all the core Microsoft fonts on my machine running Linux. In Ubuntu/Debian, there is a package called msttcorefonts which bundles all the most common true type Windows fonts. You can also copy the fonts from your Windows partition to Linux if you are dual booting between the two OSes..."

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