[Wine]Quicken fonts

Duane Clark dclark at akamail.com
Wed Nov 3 19:55:53 CST 2004


Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 11:04:59 -0800, Duane Clark <dclark at akamail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>>In general, if there are any TTF fonts in your Wine c:/windows/fonts
>>directory, then Wine will render those fonts directly (using Freetype)
>>rather that use the X font server. That assumes you have reasonably
>>recent FreeType rendering. This is actually the best way to go; it tends
>>to produce better results.
> 
> 
> So does it make sense to do some inventory between a 'working' windows
> box (I the user has one) and the Linux environment, and then copy over
> any fonts that might be missing?

An inventory might be overkill. Just copy all the fonts; any already 
there will be overwritten.

> 
> I guess I Was hoping that some work under WINEDEBUG would tell me (or
> Marc in this case) which onts might be getting resized..
> 

He mentioned a 53MB log file. The information is in there, but it would 
require a bit of effort to find it.




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