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phantomjs + web fonts + font loader

I'm running phantomjs within a node.js environment, and it's going well. At the moment I'm just using local fonts, but want to get google web fonts working with phantomjs.

There are various conflicting and confusing reports out there about whether and how web fonts can be made to work with phantomjs. There are articles like this that contain outdated information with dead links. And posts like this that suggest that phantomjs 2.0 will or can support web fonts, others saying that it doesn't but 2.0.1 will. In this post there is a suggestion that webfonts do work in 2.0.

I've tried lots of options, including with phantomjs 2.0 and 2.0.1 binaries, but can't get it working. It may be that I'm loading the web fonts in my js using the web font loader using something along the following:

WebFont.load({
    google: {
        families: ['Droid Sans', 'Droid Serif']
    },
    loading: function() { console.log('loading'); },
    active: function() {
        console.log('active');
        // hooray!  can do stuff...
    },
    inactive: function() { console.log('inactive'); },
    fontloading: function(familyName, fvd) { console.log('fontloading', familyName, fvd); },
    fontactive: function(familyName, fvd) { console.log('fontactive', familyName, fvd); },
    fontinactive: function(familyName, fvd) { console.log('fontinactive', familyName, fvd); }
});

But I'm always reaching the inactive branch, so the font load is never successful... even though the same code works fine in a browser (reaching the active branch.

In the font loader docs, it says:

If Web Font Loader determines that the current browser does not support @font-face, the inactive event will be triggered.

My suspicion is that web font loader is indeed determining that the browser (phantomjs) does not support this, hence always reaching inactive.

Anyone got phantomjs + web fonts + web font loader working?

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drmrbrewer Avatar asked Dec 08 '15 18:12

drmrbrewer


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What is the UA you are using? I think Web Font Loader uses UA to detect the support. Try a UA of Chrome 46 and then see if it works.

var webPage = require('webpage');
var page = webPage.create();
page.settings.userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/46.0.2490.86 Safari/537.36';
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Neo Avatar answered Oct 06 '22 17:10

Neo


Not to be marked as correct, just expanding on the above answer. Since all phantomjs wrappers (like phridge and phantomjs-node) basically spawn a new phantomjs process, the result should be the same when run from a nodejs context.

phatomjs-webfonts.html:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>PhantomJS WebFontsTest</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/webfont/1.5.18/webfont.js"></script>
<script>
    WebFont.load({
        google: {
            families: ['Droid Sans', 'Droid Serif']
        },
        loading:  function(){ console.log('WebFonts loading'); },
        active:   function(){ console.log('WebFonts active'); },
        inactive: function(){ console.log('WebFonts inactive'); }
    });
</script>   
</body>
</html>

phantomjs-webfonts.js:

var page = require('webpage').create();

page.settings.userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/46.0.2490.86 Safari/537.36';

page.onConsoleMessage = function(msg, lineNum, sourceId) {
  console.log('Console: ' + msg);
};

page.open('http://<server-address>/phantomjs-webfonts.html', function(status) {
  console.log("Loading status: " + status);
});

Command:

phantomjs phantomjs-webfonts.js

Output:

Console: WebFonts loading
Console: WebFonts active
Loading status: success
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cviejo Avatar answered Oct 06 '22 17:10

cviejo