wine users - May 2001 - Whitespace, whitespace everywhere, but none for WINE

Dear All,

Yesterday I installed WINE on my Debian GNU/Linux machine.  I obtained the
program packages from Andreas Schuldei's site, and the winesetuptk package
from Ove Kaven's.  Although my machine is dual boot, I am also trying out
the "WINE without Windows" option, ie by creating a /c directory in
the
Linux partition.

Little apps (Notepad, Minesweeper, calc, puTTY, etc.) work fine, MATLAB
seems ok but won't run because or a registration problem, Endnote has a
missing library, and Photoshop does all sorts of crazy things, but ALL of
them lead to this error listed four times in the xterm window, whether
I run them out of the Windows partition or from the /c subdirectory:

err:psdrv:PSDRV_AFMGetCharMetrics No whitespace found.

I thought that finding what this is about might be the best starting point
before I start hassling over big programs like Photoshop.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

regards,

Richard Baxter

Make sure it's loading the Wine libraries. (in RH: the /etc/ld.so.conf
should point to /opt/wine/lib)

Also ensure you're not running a problem Winders, like 2k.
Does this particular error happen whether built-in or external .dll's?   Did
you look at the /tmp.wine log?  Or hit the debug button on the window?  Need
more info.
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Richard Baxter wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Yesterday I installed WINE on my Debian GNU/Linux machine.  I obtained the
> program packages from Andreas Schuldei's site, and the winesetuptk
package
> from Ove Kaven's.  Although my machine is dual boot, I am also trying
out
> the "WINE without Windows" option, ie by creating a /c directory
in the
> Linux partition.
>
> Little apps (Notepad, Minesweeper, calc, puTTY, etc.) work fine, MATLAB
> seems ok but won't run because or a registration problem, Endnote has a
> missing library, and Photoshop does all sorts of crazy things, but ALL of
> them lead to this error listed four times in the xterm window, whether
> I run them out of the Windows partition or from the /c subdirectory:
>
> err:psdrv:PSDRV_AFMGetCharMetrics No whitespace found.
>
> I thought that finding what this is about might be the best starting point
> before I start hassling over big programs like Photoshop.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> regards,
>
> Richard Baxter
>
> _______________________________________________
> wine-users mailing list
> wine-users@winehq.com
> http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users

Richard Baxter wrote:
> 
> err:psdrv:PSDRV_AFMGetCharMetrics No whitespace found.
> 

If you're using a semi-current version of Wine, this means that the
PostScript driver is trying to parse an AFM file that has an error in
its character metrics section.  If you're using an older version, there
was a bug that caused character metric parsing to fail entirely and
issue this error.

You can run Wine with '--debugmsg -all,+psdrv' to get more information,
but be prepared for a lot of output.  You might try:

    wine --debugmsg -all,+psdrv {your EXE} > psdrv.log 2>&1

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