Mon, 17 Oct 2005
Installing the Adobe SVG viewer with Debian stable
I find more and more projects using the SVG format for vector graphics on web
pages. Unfortunately there is no Free Software plugin for Mozilla or Firefox to
display SVG files. Adobe does make a non-free plugin, built against Redhat 9
but not in RPM format. It installs easy enough on Debian but actually getting
it to display an SVG file is another thing entirely. Fortunately, Mozilla gave
a helpful error message, which cleared everything up. You need to
enable
TrueType2 fonts for your Mozilla compatible browsers and install some TT
fonts to actually see anything in an SVG file. You can find the file referenced
in the documentation at
/usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref/debian.js.
If you only have Firefox installed and not Mozilla and the default kernel for
sarge, it appears that this plugin doesn't work at all. Or maybe it's the
nvidia graphics driver. Who knows. Fuck closed source binaries for Linux.
The above instructions are dependent on some Debian packages, most
notably, libfreetype6, libttf2 and ttf-freefont. In proper Debian syntax
apt-get install libfreetype6 libttf2 ttf-freefont. The last package gives you
some default TT fonts to work with. You can see all the fonts available with
apt-cache search ttf-
That's it. Go
here to test your
plugin installation after restarting your browser.
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