Missing fonts

Tomas Carnecky tom at dbservice.com
Mon Apr 10 07:13:24 CDT 2006


Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> Sunday, April 9, 2006, 4:15:22 PM, Alexander N. Sørnes wrote:
>> Hello,
> 
>> I have found some font problems recently with Wine.  First of all, the 
>> text of most richedit objects started displaying as rectangles since 
>> around Wine 0.9.9, and now, with current CVS, no text is displayed in 
>> applications witht the standard Windows interface (like winecfg, 
>> wordpad, message boxes etc.) on some systems.
> [skip]
> 
> I'm sorry, but are you reading this mailing list at all? To sum it up:
> 1. You need fontforge.
> 2. You need _working_ fontforge.

maybe the configure script should check the fontforge version, to be at
least from 2006.
My fontforge: "Executable based on sources from 20:17 6-Apr-2006-ML.".
Checking for "Executable based on sources from (.+) (.+)-(.+)-2006" in
`fontforge --version` should be enough.

tom



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