wine 0.9.30-35 Something strange happened with the fonts ?

Tom Spear speeddymon at gmail.com
Wed Apr 18 12:04:43 CDT 2007


My md5 is different, and I can type characters and they are visible.

Tom

On 4/18/07, Nick Law <nlaw at nildram.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Huw Davies wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 08:44:13AM +0100, Nick Law wrote:
> >
> >> yes, /usr/local/share/wine/fonts/ exists my system and is only populated
> >> with two fonts, broadway.ttf and ad5font.fon. So all the fonts from the
> >> build which include courier (fon) and serife don't get transferred to
> >> either /usr/local/share/wine/fonts/ or anywhere in .wine, that explains
> >> why serief, courier & system don't now show up on the font list when I
> >> run notepad.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > It's ${prefix}/share/wine/fonts where ${prefix} defaults to /usr/local
> > and can be changed by running configure with the --prefix option.
> > They get installed there where you run make install.  I've no idea
> > where the broadway.ttf and ad5font.fon fonts come from, but they're
> > certainly not from a Wine install.
> >
> >
> >> Should I expect to find all the fonts that are in my build directory
> >> /home/guest/downloads/wine/wine-0.9.35/fonts/ ie 108 files in
> >> /usr/local/share/wine/fonts/ ? if so they don't appear to get copied in
> >> the install (at least by version 0.9.35)
> >>
> >
> > Well the 39 .fon fonts and marlett.ttf should be installed there.  You
> > should try to work out why that's not happening.
> >
> > Huw.
> >
> Thanks Huw,
>
> :-) , /usr/local/share/wine/fonts/ is a symbolic link to ......
> /home/guest/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts/ ... lol
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 2006-04-03 00:19 fonts ->
> /home/guest/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts
>
> Now I understand why there is nothing in /usr/local/share/wine/fonts/
> ... doing a 'make install' re populates /usr/local/share/wine/fonts/
> which means because it's symbolically linked, the fonts all show up in
> /home/guest/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts/.
>
> So, notepad now shows the courier, small font, sans serief and system
> fonts (all .fon files) in the list of fonts in notepad. All well and
> good, however I still have the problem that if you select any of these
> non true type fonts, ie courier, small font, sans serief and system
> fonts you just get blank characters.
>
> Now I need to figure out if the problem lies with fontforge or elsewhere
> ? ( I have a feeling it's elsewhere).
>
> I would appreciate it if somebody could confirm that they can type
> characters into notepad using the courier (non truetype font) on 0.9.35
> and confirm the coure.fon md5 as ..
>
> fac1cac04f5717b67e642ac8197f4c1d /usr/local/share/wine/fonts/coure.fon
> 4912 bytes
>
> This would at least confirm whether the problem lies with fontforge on
> my system or elsewhere.
>
> Thanks again for your help, it's much appreciated.
>
> Nick
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-- 
Thanks

Tom

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