[Wine] Wine: font shows blank squares instead of characters.

[James McKenzie]

On 2/6/11 7:41 PM, Charles Davis wrote:
> On 2/6/11 7:34 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
>> On 2/6/11 2:16 PM, Billy T wrote:
>>> If you're on a Mac, and have installed MS Office 2011, you may get
>>> problems with fonts.  It seems that microsoft have decided to change
>>> some of the system fonts with their own versions - look in
>>> /Library/Fonts and you will see that some of the font files (eg Arial,
>>> Times, Verdana, Wingdings) are now links to the MS Fonts. MS moved the
>>> originals to /Library/Fonts\ Disabled/) but the links from your wine
>>> prefix fonts to these are now broken.
>>>
>>> To fix, you need to recreate the links in the Windows\Fonts directory.
>>> Easiest is just to delete the font files (aliases) in there and create
>>> new shortcuts from the /Library/Fonts folder.
>>>
>> If you are on a Mac, you can get Office 2011 for the Mac.  Why do you
>> need/want/desire the Windows one?
> He *is* talking about Office 2011 for the Mac. There is no Office 2011
> for Windows.
>
Thank you.  I'll keep this in mind when we install it later this week.

James McKenzie