[Bug 22912] New: Half Life 2 and Portal subtitles unreadable

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22912

           Summary: Half Life 2 and Portal subtitles unreadable
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.44
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: wine-bugs at winehq.org
        ReportedBy: c_winehq at selador.com.au


After installing Steam in a new profile and then using it to download and
install Portal, the game runs perfectly except for unreadable dialog captions. 
(see attachment Portal-glitch02.png)

The screenshot illustrates how the sound effects captions in white are fine,
only the dialog captions in red with italics are affected.

I've tried reducing all graphics options and resolutions, to no avail. It looks
like something specific to font rendering - the bounding box for the characters
is not taking into account their italicization, so the rightmost pixels are
being truncated. 

The exact same problem was described more than 2 years ago against Half Life 2
(which uses the same core engine) here:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=2890  (post titled
'Font rendering oddness' by John Flatness on Thursday November 1st 2007)

It's also been reported downstream in the Crossover bugtracker and they've
confirmed the bug but have been unable to take it any further for nearly a
year: www.codeweavers.com/support/tickets/browse/?ticket_id=742458;

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