wine users - May 2001 - experience report: cups, wordview and printing -- GREAT

Hi there,
I just installed the latest wine release 1205 on SuSE7.1 with cups and for 
the first time printing works for me. I just added the afmdirs section like 
it says in the manual and now it works.
GREAT!!

Word view97 works just FINE, even with rtf files. Great.

I have one little problem though. Ever since I added the [afmdirs], the 
umlauts (diphtongs) ??? and other special characters do not occupy any 
space in my text. b?se would become bse with an ? under the s character. 
This happens on the screen as well as in the postscript output. Is there 
some bug in the font handling?

Apart from this wordview 97 (freely distributable) works fine as Word 
reader. Thank you.

Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote:
> 
> I have one little problem though. Ever since I added the [afmdirs], the
> umlauts (diphtongs) ??? and other special characters do not occupy any
> space in my text. b?se would become bse with an ? under the s character.
> This happens on the screen as well as in the postscript output. Is there
> some bug in the font handling?
> 
Many.  :-)

Currently, the PostScript driver gets Unicode strings from the
application
and just converts them to 8-bit character strings.  Any characters that
aren't in Microsoft's "ANSI" character set will get dropped. 
Mismatches
between the ISO encodings used by the X server and the Microsoft
"ANSI"
encoding could cause more problems.  All in all, it's a mess.

I'm working on getting the PostScript driver Unicode-enabled.  This may
or may not help your situation, depending on the Unicode/ASCII status of
the code path between your application and the driver.

Frankly, I'm not sure why loading the PostScript metrics is affecting
your display.  I just don't understand the way that the two interact.

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