New winetricks: add support for Red Hat's liberation fonts

Hans Leidekker hans at it.vu.nl
Fri May 25 12:20:54 CDT 2007


On Friday 25 May 2007, mark cox wrote:

> Scott, That wasn't what i was thinking when i suggested it to Dan. If users
> tests the fonts with wine, which they can now do using winetricks, i was
> hoping that the font names could be remapped/hacked so that the names of the
> mscorefonts map to the redhat fonts. If that is successful, the fonts could
> be included in wine and we wouldn't need mscorefonts anymore.

Yes, we should be able to eliminate a number of font related bugs by
shipping with these fonts. Apps like Picasa [1] appear to ask for a
specific font name, others even reference the font file directly.

There's another bug where if an app installs the first truetype font
in Wine all subsequent text is shown with that font [2].

These bugs can be worked around by installing corefonts.

I have attached a script that changes the filenames of the Liberation
fonts as well as the font names inside the files to match native.
It requires fontforge to be installed and assumes you have already
loaded the Liberation fonts, with winetricks for example:

$ wget www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
$ sh winetricks liberation
$ sh convert_fonts

 -Hans

[1] http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4346
[2] http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8338

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