[Wine] Re: Font confusion

[joseph2k]

Göran Uddeborg wrote:

> 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?

Try setting a link from ~.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts to /usr/share/fonts

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