G?ran Uddeborg wrote:
> In my attempts to get Fractal Mapper
> (http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=3117) to work I am a bit
> confused about the behaviour of text and fonts.
>
> The application's documentation says you should be able to use any
> TrueType fonts. I see a menu with the fonts I have on the system. If
> I select one of them and enter some text I see the text as I enter it,
> but when I finish it disappears.
>
> I can select the area with the text, so the application thinks it is
> there. But it is invisible.
>
> I've investigated a bit, and figured out that with a fresh wine
> installation I have a list of all fonts in the registry under
> Software/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/Fonts. When I try to use
> one font, its entry disappears from the registry!
>
> If I
> 1) copy a TTF file from /usr/share/fonts/... to
> .wine/drive_c/windows/fonts, and
> 2) add an entry in the registry pointing to this file,
> THEN I can use that font. The text is still visible after I finish
> entering it!
>
> So I have a workaround. But it doesn't seem to be the right way. Am
> I doing something wrong? Is this a bug I should report? Can anyone
> explain what's going on?
Try setting a link from ~.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts to /usr/share/fonts
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