[Wine] Problem with Truetype font

[Scott Ritchie]

On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 16:56 +0000, Karl Kashofer wrote:
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> Hi !
> 
> I am trying to install an old windows95 app from a floppy disk, but it
> fails with a truetype error.
> 
> System:
> Kubuntu 10.5 386 or k7 kernel
> Wine installed via adept
> 
> I insert the floppy with the install.exe on it, and execute it with
> wine. It starts the installer, installs some files but then the
> installer complains about being unable to install the  custom truetype
> font. The installer aborts, but the program had nevertheless already
> been copied to c/programs so I tried starting it, but it complained
> about not finding the font. I have then dropped the TTF file of the font
> into the .wine/windows/fonts folder to no avail.
> 
> 
> Any ideas anyone ?
> 
> Cheers,
> Karl

Try setting Wine to Windows 95 mode in winecfg?

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie