why is Firefox rejecting ttf fonts

Question

I have ttf fonts from the web that are listed in ftp client* directory listing as windows ttf fonts. I am working with embedded fonts on Firefox on Mac OSX platform and I am getting the following web console error:

 [17:59:49.201] downloadable font: rejected by sanitizer (font-family: "Cryv2" style:normal weight:normal stretch:normal    src index:0) source: http://localhost/html5/css/fonts/new-fonts-ttf/CryUncial/Cryv2.ttf @ http://localhos/html5/css/embeddedFontDeclarations.css

Is this because windows ttf is different? Or is the file corrupted?

If so, is there a way of screening font files from the web for usability, or converting windows ttf to more universal file?

I do and have converted ttf file to eot files for the sake of Internet Explorer, but I primarily work on DOM based browsers, and Firefox for dev, authoring and testing on Mac OSX environment using pre-installed Apache server locally.

*ftp client is Fetch and text editor is BBedit. Firefox 12.0

Answer 1

http://caniuse.com/#feat=ttf

You can use ttf, but it needs to be a completely error free one, and encoded in Unicode, so Wingdings is an example of a problem in Firefox.

Please see this for reference: Wingdings font family does not seem to work on Firefox and Opera

Also, load it like http://www.example.com/xxx with the ws to ensure there isn't any problems. Sometimes servers act weird when you are testing on the site.

Here's a way of converting ttf to a whole set of universal fonts: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator. Font Squirrel is a good choice. ;)