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Windows 2003 Server, fonts issue when running programs as services

Discussion in 'Windows Home Server' started by cierech, Apr 8, 2009.

  1. cierech

    cierech Guest

    Hi everybody,

    I am struggling with a very weird problem. I have apache running on
    Windows 2003 server. I have a simple Windows API C
    (EnumFontFamiliesEx) program that all it does it lists all the fonts
    installed on the system. When I run this program as a CGI application
    through apache, I do not see ANY TrueType fonts. I see all other
    OpenType fonts etc.

    When I run the program as a standalone application i see all the
    fonts. When I run apache as a standalone program and not a service I
    see all the fonts. So this makes me think that it's an issue with the
    service. Initially I thought it was a permissions issue, so I just
    gave Everyone full access to the Fonts folder and all the fonts
    inside. Same problem. When I recreate the scenario on Windows XP
    everything is fine regardless how I run my test program... So this is
    definitely a Windows 2003 problem.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've been googling for days now
    to no avail.

    Thanks for reading this :)

    Andrzej Ciereszko
    Software Engineer
    aciereszko@gmail.com
     
    cierech, Apr 8, 2009
    #1
  3. cierech

    cierech Guest

    Re: Windows 2003 Server, fonts issue when running programs asservices

    On Apr 8, 2:49 pm, cierech <acieres...@gmail.com> wrote:
    > Hi everybody,
    >
    > I am struggling with a very weird problem. I have apache running on
    > Windows 2003 server. I have a simple Windows API C
    > (EnumFontFamiliesEx) program that all it does it lists all the fonts
    > installed on the system. When I run this program as a CGI application
    > through apache, I do not see ANY TrueType fonts. I see all other
    > OpenType fonts etc.
    >
    > When I run the program as a standalone application i see all the
    > fonts. When I run apache as a standalone program and not a service I
    > see all the fonts. So this makes me think that it's an issue with the
    > service. Initially I thought it was a permissions issue, so I just
    > gave Everyone full access to the Fonts folder and all the fonts
    > inside. Same problem. When I recreate the scenario on Windows XP
    > everything is fine regardless how I run my test program... So this is
    > definitely a Windows 2003 problem.
    >
    > Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've been googling for days now
    > to no avail.
    >
    > Thanks for reading this :)
    >
    > Andrzej Ciereszko
    > Software Engineer
    > acieres...@gmail.com

    I have also verified the same behavior on two other Windows 2003
    machines.
     
    cierech, Apr 8, 2009
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