[Wine] Font confusion
Göran Uddeborg
uddeborg at carmen.se
Mon Mar 19 00:54:31 CDT 2007
In my attempts to get Fractal Mapper
(http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=3117) to work I am a bit
confused about the behaviour of text and fonts.
The application's documentation says you should be able to use any
TrueType fonts. I see a menu with the fonts I have on the system. If
I select one of them and enter some text I see the text as I enter it,
but when I finish it disappears.
I can select the area with the text, so the application thinks it is
there. But it is invisible.
I've investigated a bit, and figured out that with a fresh wine
installation I have a list of all fonts in the registry under
Software/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/Fonts. When I try to use
one font, its entry disappears from the registry!
If I
1) copy a TTF file from /usr/share/fonts/... to
.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts, and
2) add an entry in the registry pointing to this file,
THEN I can use that font. The text is still visible after I finish
entering it!
So I have a workaround. But it doesn't seem to be the right way. Am
I doing something wrong? Is this a bug I should report? Can anyone
explain what's going on?
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