[Wine] Re: Why is app defaulting to Captain Podd font?

[Robert M. Riches Jr.]

On 2006-12-06, Daniel Skorka <skorka at gmx.net> wrote:
> Robert M. Riches Jr. <spamtrap42 at verizon.net> wrote:
>> I don't believe it is distributed with PAF.  It does _not_
>> show up if I do the following commands in a directory above
>> my $WINEPREFIX area:
>> 
>>    find . -name '*aptain*'
>>    find . -name '*APTAIN*'
>
> You may find the '-iname' option quite convinient...

Yes, thanks for the reminder.  I had seen that somewhere
before, but those neurons must have been paged out between
then and now.

>> It appears the "Captain Podd" font is coming from the
>> Mandriva Linux distribution on which Wine is running.  How
>> PAF or some DLL finds and selects it is something I don't
>> know but would like to find out.
>
> Well, it certainly doesn't exist on my system. My guess is that PAF is
> actually looking for another font which does not exist on your system.
> One of two things may be happening:
> The mechanism for looking up a font tries to choose a "similar" one
> and returns what you see.
> PAF realizes this font doesn't exist and on purpose chooses Captain
> Podd.
> I suggest: Find out which font exactly is being used under Windows. Make
> sure this font is available under wine. See if that helps.

Ahh, that sounds like a good idea.

Thanks.

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Robert Riches
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