wine users - Jan 2003 - Font question

Hi Everybody!

I have used an 200112xx version of Wine and there was'nt such a problem.
Now I have the 20030115 version. I have compiled it and installed. Everything 
works but instead of the fonts I have everywhere just rectangles.

How can I repair this little bug (this one must be not a serios one, I think), 
and make my fonts show on?

Thnanks
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DRobert

Robert Dady wrote:
 > Hi Everybody!
 >
 > I have used an 200112xx version of Wine and there was'nt such a
 > problem. Now I have the 20030115 version. I have compiled it and
 > installed. Everything works but instead of the fonts I have
 > everywhere just rectangles.
 >
 > How can I repair this little bug (this one must be not a serios one,
 > I think), and make my fonts show on?

You can put real Windows fonts into the C:\windows\Fonts directory; 
wherever that maps to on your system. This will give the best results 
(Microsoft has made some very nice fonts). You can get them from a real 
Windows installation, or get some from:

http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/

You can also create entries in ~/.wine/config to point to your Linux 
fonts; but just use the TrueType ones:

; the TrueType font dirs you want to make accessible to wine
[FontDirs]
"dir1" = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
"dir2" = "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
;"dir3" = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TT"
;"dir4" = "/usr/share/fonts/TT"

On Sunday 26 Jan 2003 10:09, Robert Dady wrote:
> Everything works but instead of the fonts I have everywhere just
> rectangles.
Try installing the latest version of Freetype (www.freetype.org) - that solved 
it for me a while back.

Stephen

Thank you for your answers!

The problem has been solved by copying the real fonts of an real windows (xp) 
into the windows/fonts directory. But it was at least 29 MB.

-- 
DRobert