Font Awesome Manager 1.2.7

Kirby · Jan 8, 2023

puterfixer said:
@Kirby I just uploaded 1.2.5.1 but the setting to change from the default transfonter.org to the other one returns an error:

Code:

The following sub-option(s) are unknown: enabled

I unfortunately can't reproduce this with the latest package (Version 1.2.5.1 / Sun Jan 08 2023 10:21:10 GMT+0000).
Did you double-check that you are using the latest code?

@Mr. Lucky
You can find out the configured processor by checking FAM options

Mr Lucky · Jan 8, 2023

Kirby said:
@Mr. Lucky
You can find out the configured processor by checking FAM options

Thanks yers I discovered that and edited my post above.

pyftsubset is checked so I will wait for a compatible update.

motowebmaster · Jan 8, 2023

I'm using pyftsubset on 1.2.4, should I still wait to upgrade?

Screenshot 2023-01-08 at 8.18.06 AM copy.webp

puterfixer · Jan 8, 2023

Kirby said:
I unfortunately can't reproduce this with the latest package

I had the previous version installed (1.2.4 I think, just not active, as it was getting access forbidden by the free online service), then upgraded to the version you released today, 1.2.5.1. This is how the behavior occurred.

I removed completely the plugin including deleted files, then installed 1.2.5.1 again. This time none of the processors were selected, and after I picked subfonter.net and clicked Save, it ran the detection and font reduction thing. I have not seen this before. Net, it works now - all icons are visible. Not sure what was the issue before, but a clean-up of old version helped. Thanks

Kirby · Jan 8, 2023

motowebmaster said:
I'm using pyftsubset on 1.2.4, should I still wait to upgrade?

Yes, please wait until dust has settled down a bit; I'll pust an update notice when I feel things are stable enough.

There is nothing (except cosmetic changes like fixed typos in source code comments and a small glitch in a phrase) in 1.2.5 that would improve things if you use pyftsubset.

puterfixer said:
I removed completely the plugin including deleted files, then installed 1.2.5.1 again. This time none of the processors were selected, and after I picked subfonter.net and clicked Save, it ran the detection and font reduction thing. I have not seen this before. Net, it works now - all icons are visible. Not sure what was the issue before, but a clean-up of old version helped.

Great to hear that it does work now

If you can please use pyftsubset instead of the webservice (this might even work on shared webhosts with the precompiled binary).

puterfixer · Jan 8, 2023

My webhost provides a very locked down service (and I prefer it this way, despite the limited flexibility) with no shell access and no custom software. They don't even provide imagick PECL extensions. The web service will have to do. For now I'm just curious if the plugin makes a significant difference in my case.

Kirby · Jan 8, 2023

puterfixer said:
My webhost provides a very locked down service (and I prefer it this way, despite the limited flexibility) with no shell access and no custom software.

You don't need shell access.

If you do not have shell access you could still try to use the precompiled binary, please do that if you haven't done yet.

Transfonter.org already blocked requests from this Add-on (most likely due to service overload), I don't want this to happen again with Subfonter.net - so this should really only be used if nothing else works!

puterfixer · Jan 8, 2023

Linux Debian, check.

proc_open, check.

Started add-on installer and:

sh: 1: exec: /usr/www/users/[redacted]/forums/src/addons/Kirby/PyFtSubset/bin/pyftsubset.sh: Permission denied

Can't execute pyftsubset

Looks like shell access is required, even if it's not an interactive shell that I need to access over SSH.

Maybe a change of approach is necessary, and be extremely conservative on the conditions that allow the web service to be triggered? Perhaps you don't need to drop EVERYTHING that is not being used and reach the absolute minimum set of font objects that are in use, when this course of action requires you to re-compute that list of objects every time there's a new one. Maybe you can categorize the content of the font using MoSCoW prioritization: Must have, Should have, Could have, Won't have, and exclude some big blocks that are very unlikely to be used (the Won't have) but keep all the Must have (usually most are in us) and Should have (have a high chance of being used). That strategy might still give you a valuable space/time/traffic reduction but make API calls extremely rare.

Also you could use the power of data from people already using the plugin: with their opt-in permission, collect which objects are retained in the font and which not. With a sufficiently large number of forums reporting in, you can get a good sense of what is the minimal set that would pretty much make everyone happy with near zero API calls and still dropping a big chunk of unused stuff.

Kirby · Jan 8, 2023

Did you upload the files for the pyftsubset Add-on manually (via FTP) and set chmod or did you try to install the ZIP in XenForo backend?
If you tried installation via ZIP, please test version 1.0.3.

The code already tries to keep subset processor calls minimal, currently there is only one call to the service if there are actually changes in the subsets though that call may include more files than actually necessary and a future version will further reduce the amount of files in one call.

What could be done additionally is to locally cache subsets for reuse (eg. an Add-on or Style that adds new icons does get installed and uninstalled again, in this case subset definitions change twice but after uninstall the previous set (from before install) could be reused).

This could reduce calls a bit but it is rather complicated to implement so I am a bit reluctant to actually do that :/

Mr. Jinx · Jan 10, 2023

I wanted to try subfonter.net as I can't install the pre-compiled binary (XF Cloud).
If I rebuild the icons, I don't get any errors, but most fonts are missing.
Any way to do some debugging on this?

Kirby · Jan 10, 2023

Hmm ... normally it should log an error if smth. goes wrong.

What exactly does "but most fonts are missing" mean?
Can you set Log Level to Debug, trigger a manual rebuild and post the rebuild log?

Mr. Jinx · Jan 11, 2023

Some fonts are visible, others not. For example the quick reply box:

Manual rebuild:

Code:

Code:

array(4) {
  ["url"] => string(24) "/admin.php?tools/run-job"
  ["referrer"] => string(120) "https://###/admin.php?tools/run-job&only_id=353278&_xfRedirect=%2Fadmin.php%3Ftools%2Frebuild%26success%3D1"
  ["_GET"] => array(1) {
    ["tools/run-job"] => string(0) ""
  }
  ["_POST"] => array(3) {
    ["_xfRedirect"] => string(58) "https://###/admin.php?tools/rebuild&success=1"
    ["_xfToken"] => string(8) "********"
    ["only_ids"] => string(6) "353278"
  }
}

Kirby · Jan 11, 2023

According to the log Build Mode is set to Manual, eg. only those icons explicitly listed in options

Icons
Light Icons
Regular Icons
Solid Icons

will be included in the subsets and no auto-discovery (eg. scanning database and files) is taking place.

Was this set intentionally?
If so you will have to manually add every used icon to those lists, if not I'd suggest to set Build Mode to Automatic (which is the default) and run another rebuild.

Mr. Jinx · Jan 11, 2023

Yes, that was the problem. Thanks!
I probably changed it to manual, my mistake.

Kirby · Jan 11, 2023

Great to hear

So Subfonter does work as expected for you with XF Cloud?

Mr. Jinx · Jan 12, 2023

Yes, it works perfectly without changing the user agent.

Kirby · Jan 12, 2023

Kirby updated Font Awesome Manager with a new update entry:

1.2.6 - Maintenance Release

Existing users that currently run 1.2.4 or older and use pyftsubset should not upgrade yet!
Bugs Fixed

[Subfonter] Temporary ZIP file was not removed

New Features

None

Other Changes

Improved logging

Read the rest of this update entry...

JoyFreak · Jan 13, 2023

Whoops. I downloaded and installed the latest version via the Addon Update Notifier and remembered the notice not to download it for older than 1.2.4 version who use pyftsubset. What should I do now? Can I downgrade or will I need to disable the addon now?

Kirby · Jan 13, 2023

You don't have to do anything, it should work just fine - I just don't have enough feedback yet to say it does work fine.

Do you expecience any problems?

JoyFreak · Jan 13, 2023

Kirby said:
You don't have to do anything, it should work just fine - I just don't have enough feedback yet to say it does work fine.

Do you expecience any problems?

No problems so far.

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