XaraX font problems

[David Jones]

And please post solutions back to the list! XaraX is also 
my favorite (sorry for the US spelling!) graphics 
application and am very encouraged to here that 
someone has it working under WINE!

David feeling happy about something at last today!
gnome at hawaii.rr.com

On 2 Aug 03, at 11:23, Bard Papegaaij wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm a newbie to Wine. I run Mandrake 9.1 and have just
> downloaded the latest Wine RPM. It seemed to install fine,
> so I installed XaraX, my favourite graphics application
> (one of the few Windows programs I can't find a reasonable
> Linux substitute for). First tests worked fine: there are
> a few glitches (like being unable to access the web from
> XaraX - causes a access violation and crashes the
> program), but all the basic operations worked beautifully.
> 
> The problem started when I wanted XaraX to access the wide
> range of TTF fonts I have on my system. How do I do this?
> I tried to add a FontDirs section (I saw that in some
> documentation on the Web) pointing to my (various) font
> directories, but when I try to start XaraX then, it
> complains that it cannot find its own Xarafont and refuses
> to start. It advices me to install it again from the
> original Xarafont.fon file (which is stored in the XaraX
> directory). I have no idea how to do that: I tried "wine
> control" but that doesn't seem to do anything - no control
> panel popped up.
> 
> Questions:
> - anyone running XaraX under Wine?
> - how do they make XaraX access all the TTF fonts?
> - did anyone solve the web-access crashes in XaraX?
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Bard
> "running from Windows - fast"