Downloading fonts doesn't work!

[Mike Thompson]

I'm at a loss as to where to post this! However the answer to my problem is likely to be known by other users of Font Creator reading this post.
For some years I have made my font Mike Hebrew available free from http://cunliffethompson.com/font/ and if
you click on Free Download you go to a page where links to the fonts are shown. Until recently clicking on these links downloaded the font. NOW THE BROWSER DISPLAYS THE CODE INSIDE THE .TTF FILE, that is we are given a page of gobbledigook. This happens for IE and Firefox. The usual download dialog box does not open.

I have no idea why this is happening and looking at other sites that provide successful downloads I don't see any difference between their http code and mine. I use:

<a href="http://www.cunliffethompson.com/font/mi ... .ttf">Mike Hebrew Italic v3.10</a>

Help! Mike

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

I see the same problem in Opera too, and if I try right-click and "Save linked content as…" I get an HTM file instead of the TTF. I think it is something to do with wrong MIME types on the server, but don't know how to fix it.

As a workaround you could zip the fonts into an archive and link to that instead. That will save bandwidth too.

[William]

This problem looks familiar. I had similar problems, as mentioned in the following thread.

viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1936

William Overington

11 December 2008

[Erwin Denissen]

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Receiving Header:
HTTP/1.1·200·OK(CR)(LF)
Date:·Thu,·11·Dec·2008·08:20:13·GMT(CR)(LF)
Server:·Apache/2.2.3·(Red·Hat)(CR)(LF)
Last-Modified:·Sun,·27·Jan·2008·00:36:56·GMT(CR)(LF)
ETag:·"9d439a-6484-637ada00"(CR)(LF)
Accept-Ranges:·bytes(CR)(LF)
Content-Length:·25732(CR)(LF)
Connection:·close(CR)(LF)
Content-Type:·text/html(CR)(LF)
(CR)(LF)

I suspect the Content-Type is wrong. If possible correct it through your webserver control panel, or contact your web hosting company and ask them to fix it.

[Erwin Denissen]

Adding the following line in your .htaccess file should solve the problem:

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AddType text/plain ttf

If that doesn't work you could try:

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AddType application/octet-stream ttf

or even

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AddType font/ttf ttf

[Mike Thompson]

Thanks Erwin, I added "AddType text/plain ttf" and the download works again. Mike