[Bug 10952] Wine prefers Marlett instead of a legible font

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10952


Ove Kaaven <ovek at arcticnet.no> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Severity|trivial                     |major
             Status|RESOLVED                    |UNCONFIRMED
         Resolution|INVALID                     |




--- Comment #14 from Ove Kaaven <ovek at arcticnet.no>  2007-12-30 10:36:23 ---
Vitaliy: I have fonts. Nobody said I didn't have fonts. You know I have at
least one font because Wine bundles Tahoma. Of sans-serif fonts, on my
minimal-install of Debian, I also have Helvetica, Lucida, Bitstream Vera,
ClearlyU, and DejaVu Sans. All great fonts. Of serif fonts, I have Bitstream
Charter, Bitstream Vera Serif, Charter, DejaVu Serif, and New Century
Schoolbook. Many of these fonts also provide monospace variants, so that's
covered too.

Jesse Allen: exactly, but apparently the "good fontforge" is an *old*
fontforge. You can't expect people to have to manually downgrade their
fontforges forever (and I can't make Debian autobuilders do this at all, they'd
use the newest available), you have to find the reason and do something about
it.

Dmitry: Yes, that's how it should work, and how it used to work. But something
broke it, and I opened this bug to raise awareness of it and find a solution.

Dan Kegel: I don't have the resources to do so yet. I'd love to look into it,
but all I can say right now is that fontforge 0.0.20071002 (FontForge 2.0)
causes Wine to think Marlett is a better font than Tahoma (or any of my system
fonts) for displaying text, while this is not the case with 0.0.20061019
(FontForge 1.0). I could provide my VMware virtual machine, if that'd help...
or I could make traces, if you know what to look for. For example, here's a
diff of traces from running winecfg (after aliasing MS Shell Dlg to Arial
instead of Tahoma), using WINEDEBUG=+font:

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
 trace:font:ReadFontDir Found "marlett.ttf" in "/usr/lib/../share/wine/fonts/"
 trace:font:AddFontToList Loading font file
"/usr/lib/../share/wine/fonts//marlett.ttf" index 0
 trace:font:get_familyname Got localised name L"Marlett"
-trace:font:AddFontToList fsCsb = 80000000 00000000/00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000
+trace:font:AddFontToList fsCsb = 80000001 00000000/00000001 10000000 00000000
00000000
 trace:font:AddFontToList Added font L"Marlett" L"Regular"
 trace:font:ReadFontDir Found "tahomabd.ttf" in "/usr/lib/../share/wine/fonts/"
 trace:font:AddFontToList Loading font file
"/usr/lib/../share/wine/fonts//tahomabd.ttf" index 0
@@ -2047,7 +2047,7 @@
 trace:font:DumpFontList Family: L"System"
 trace:font:DumpFontList        L"Regular"      00000001 16
 trace:font:DumpFontList Family: L"Marlett"
-trace:font:DumpFontList        L"Regular"      80000000
+trace:font:DumpFontList        L"Regular"      80000001
 trace:font:DumpFontList Family: L"Tahoma"
 trace:font:DumpFontList        L"Bold" 20000013
 trace:font:DumpFontList        L"Regular"      20000013
@@ -2167,50 +2167,42 @@
 trace:font:WineEngCreateFontInstance L"MS Shell Dlg", h=-11, it=0, weight=400,
PandF=00, charset=0 orient 0 escapement 0
 trace:font:WineEngCreateFontInstance not in cache
 trace:font:WineEngCreateFontInstance substituting L"MS Shell Dlg" -> L"Arial"
-trace:font:WineEngCreateFontInstance (it=0, bd=1) is selected for (it=0, bd=0)
 trace:font:WineEngCreateFontInstance (it=0, bd=0) is selected for (it=0, bd=0)
-trace:font:WineEngCreateFontInstance Chosen: L"Tahoma" L"Regular"
(/usr/lib/../share/wine/fonts//tahoma.ttf/(nil):0)
-trace:font:OpenFontFace "/usr/lib/../share/wine/fonts//tahoma.ttf"/(nil), 0, 0
x -11
+trace:font:WineEngCreateFontInstance Chosen: L"Marlett" L"Regular"
(/usr/lib/../share/wine/fonts//marlett.ttf/(nil):0)
+trace:font:OpenFontFace "/usr/lib/../share/wine/fonts//marlett.ttf"/(nil), 0,
0 x -11
 trace:font:WineEngGetFontData font=0x122078, table=VDMX, offset=0x0,
buf=0x33f668, cbData=0x6
...

So, does this point to a fontforge problem so I can send the report there and
get this over with, or do I have to keep circumventing obnoxious bug closers
here for a while? I can make a duplicate bug if desired.


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