[Wine] Re: Microsoft Office 2003 Font Question

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rwengr wrote:
> I installed MSWord from my Office 2003 CD using Wine on Fedora 10 (GNOME desktop) and it works fairly well except the fonts.
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> When I import a .doc file from my PC that uses Times New Roman 12 pt, the font is very coarse.  Not something I want to look at for an hour.
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> I read the wiki about wine fonts and understand the limitations in /usr/share/wine/fonts and it appears any fonts on drive_c are ignored.
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> Why does the Word font pull down menu claim to have all the fonts of my original PC?  There is no Wingdings font file on my Linux box.  It appears that Word is somehow doing an emulation.
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> I actually have the Microsoft core true type fonts installed under Fedora, but it appears that neither wine or MSWord have access to them.  Otherwise, I would expect Times New Roman 12 to look pretty good in my Word document.  It looks good when I am using OpenOffice.
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> I would like to understand the mapping so I can figure out the best way to deal with the limitations
> 
> Thanks in advance


Font smoothing is not turned on by default. http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16729

Wingdings is showing up on the font list in Word because Office 2003  installs it and a bunch of other fonts in  ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts. Office apps should see all those fonts as well as any Truetype fonts you have installed systemwide.