Currently, before 1.8.1 version, phantomjs doesn’t support WOFF files, a fix is to use https://github.com/Vitallium ‘s commit which has fixed WOFF file support issue. But you have to compile it from source, it takes a long time if your computer is not powerful enough. On my Quad-Core i7 laptop, it uses 10-15 minutes. On my EC2 dul-core middle instance, it compiles forever…

The Web Open Font Format (WOFF) is a font format for use in web pages

To do:

1) Checkout PhantomJS 1.X version as described in the official instruction: http://phantomjs.org/build.html

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// For Ubuntu Linux (tested on a barebone install of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal):

sudo apt-get install build-essential chrpath git-core libssl-dev libfontconfig1-dev
git clone git://github.com/ariya/phantomjs.git
cd phantomjs
git checkout 1.8
//./build.sh

// On Mac OS, Install Xcode and the necessary SDK for development (gcc, various tools, libraries, etc).

git clone git://github.com/ariya/phantomjs.git
cd phantomjs
git checkout 1.8
//./build.sh

Note that by don’t ./build.sh now, cause it’s the master branch of the phantomjs, so, after checkout, don’t build.

2) Add the remote repo which contains the needed branch:

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git remote add vital https://github.com/Vitallium/phantomjs.git
git fetch vital

3) Switch to the branch with WOFF file support:

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git checkout -b fix-WOFF-file-support vital/fix-WOFF-file-support

before checkout, you should know what branch to checkout, sometimes the branch name may change. use git checkout -a to list all the branches.

4) Compile PhantomJS as usual

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./build.sh

before tweeking:

after: