NextCloud AIO Font Upload

[armouredking]

So I had this setup on my previous instance by creating a volume and adding it. Saw that it was a feature with AIO in #870 #1032 but also saw there were issues from #1643.

I am also experiencing the same issues of #1643. I have the TTF from before, and I wanted to add them per the procedure for AIO but each upload regardless of file attempted results in an error Font Format Not Supported.

There is no entry made into NextCloud logs, or the logs shown in AIO page, that I can find happening when I attempt this, so unsure how to proceed with troubleshooting.

[szaimen]

Font Format Not Supported

Yes, I can reproduce that on my test instance. However since nothing gets uploaded not even in the browser, I supspect a problem with the upload code by the richdocuments app. Feel free to open a new issue here: https://github.com/nextcloud/richdocuments/issues

[armouredking]

So, the problem is, I went ahead and built an instance from scratch for NextCloud (not using docker, just bare metal install) and the font upload works just fine. So it is likely not an issue with Nextcloud's rich documents, but with some setting or configuration setup of the AIO system. Unfortunately, without some log somewhere to give a heading, I don't know how to proceed. Nothing I can see even happens in the browser debug/network tabs.

[szaimen]

I am in the same position as you. I don't have any clue what goes wrong and I also don't see any obvious configuration problem. Also without any log whatsoever it is not possible to debug this.

Additionally, I know that some people were able to upload fonts on AIO so maybe it is only happening on specific browser with OS, so it is likely not a specific AIO problem...

[szaimen]

I think I might have found one of the problems and ir is indeed in the richsocuments app.

[szaimen]

Compare e.g. https://github.com/nextcloud/richdocuments/blob/c4c3c5fc6f510fe1656d5b0b52a3b9183201b61e/src/components/AdminSettings.vue#L418 with https://github.com/nextcloud/server/blob/37bb33c5799b834dfef3fb73936bd0e5a4773fb8/resources/config/mimetypemapping.dist.json#L192

[szaimen]

Okay, I checked and it seems like the api used is just broken on my windows device: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File/type. It always returns unknown type if I try to upload a font. So definitely nothing AIO could fix.

[szaimen]

It's always Font Format Not Supported ()

All right. This means the api does not work correctly. Can you on the same devices check what the upload picker returns with https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File/type

[armouredking]

Think a comment got deleted or moved, original reply:

I don't have screenshots unfortunately. Part of my move to do the full kettle install was to test performance because I was having another odd issue with AIO or Docker NextCloud using a ZFS store for the NCDATA path. It would take several seconds for Files to show up using a Docker suite, whereas bare metal Files loads in at most 2 seconds. That is probably a me / Docker config issue though.

I think the message was from Push, or maybe Nextcloud's service, because it's a light red banner on the upper right part of the webpage for a few seconds that says Font Format Not Supported () and I would see the push message in the Network tab of F12 at the same time.

Reply to above:
The tool returns arial.ttf: font/ttf

Should also note, that I have been attempting the font upload with the file shared in #1643 to keep as much the same as possible. Testing on Windows with that file, or with one of my fonts does result in a response of calibri.ttf: unknown from the tool, so at least on the Windows side of things it's probably related to mime types. I'm not sure why PopOS gives good data but still had issues uploading fonts though.

[szaimen]

Testing on Windows with that file, or with one of my fonts does result in a response of calibri.ttf: unknown from the tool, so at least on the Windows side of things it's probably related to mime types.

All right. Can you check if applying my steps below make it work on windows? (probably a restart is needed).

[armouredking]

It appears to work after making the regedits. Not sure how I feel about telling people to make regedits, but providing a registry key would also be kinda eh. Maybe an advanced separate section that has warnings plastered about making sure you backup before you touch.

[szaimen]

Good that it works. I already told the people in question that the API that they are using is unreliable, so they will look into possible replacements in the future.

[szaimen]

Nice: after adding a Content Type REG_SZ, it allows me to upload the fonts: