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I've installed a new special font 'Micr' for check number printing (actually the name of this new True Type font is 'MICR E13B Match') .
And with this simple test html:
<head>
</head>
<html>
<FONT FACE="MICR E13B Match">348978239</FONT>
</html>
I simply cannot get Firefox to action with that font - but IE does perfectly with exact same html test page.
I'm on Windows XP, & Firefox latest version.
Firefox 'sees' the newly installed font in as much as it is an option to use as default font - not that you'd want to do that.
'Word' sees the new font and I can write a 'Word' doc with it, and as I say, it works in IE.
Any ideas?
I assume that you have done the standard things like making sure FF isn't looking at cache and have tried a reboot.
Not FF cache issue, and yes did the reboot thing.
I got the font manufacturer involved and they were very responsive.
Here is his reply:
The problem seems to extend far beyond our own font. A quick try with NVU (http://www.nvu.og),a web site editor based on the same engine as FireFox shows that only a very few fonts are in fact recognized.
In the long list of fonts in the system, almost none of them seem palatable to the Mozilla/Firefox engine. Amazingly enough, there is no pattern that could explain. One of my school fonts in TrueType works, not the other... Some very current Microsoft fonts work, not others. Maybe the Firefox development team has an idea about why it happens...
I tried the MICR TrueType, OpenType version and, oh surprise, the ATM PFM font is recognized!
Well, now you got a workaround. I regret not to have found why this occurs, and will be conducting more tests.
[edited by: Xapti at 10:17 pm (utc) on Nov. 19, 2007]
