Font issue - workaround found

[Dan Kegel]

On 9/3/06, Timm <timmr at atlanticbb.net> wrote:
> My one win app that makes me a devotee of WINE is TablEdit
> (demo at www.tabledit.com/download/tabled32.exe)
> has a custom font , tef260.ttf, that has failed to display since
> somewhere after ver 9.6. The program installs the font into
> c:\windows\font, but can not display it within the program, instead
> displaying for the most part, empty squares.
>
> I tried putting/removing tef260.ttf into /usr/local/share/wine/fonts,
> /usr/local/share/fonts, and the wine windows/fonts directories in all
> permutations. The only way I got it to display was to remove ALL fonts
> from these three directories and install tef260.ttf into an X11 font
> directory along with other win ttf fonts. This forces WINE to build a
> cachedmetrics file like it used to, and the font is displayed properly
> in the program.

That's good to know.   I see you've put that info into the appdb:
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=1599
How about filing a bug report, too?
See http://bugs.winehq.org/enter_bug.cgi
That will help keep it from falling through the cracks.
- Dan