Crashes on lack of times.ttf (bug 9623) and using Liberation Serif instead

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Mon Mar 2 08:06:09 CST 2009


http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9623

Various versions of Photoshop, and now Safari 4, insist on Times New
Roman being present or they crash on startup. ("winetricks corefonts"
works around it.)

Packaging Liberation Serif with Wine and putting a registry key to
substitute Times New Roman with it would do the job and solve the bug
nicely.

The only problem I can see is that the Liberation fonts are GPL (plus
font). Would including the font with the Wine download be possible
without making Wine entirely GPL?


- d.



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