[Wine] Weird font in Firefox

Susan Cragin susancragin at earthlink.net
Tue Apr 29 18:22:48 CDT 2008


Yes, wine can take advantage of MS fonts. It depends on what fonts the program being run uses. WINE can use msttcorefonts. When it doesn't find them, it looks for equivalent open-source fonts but doesn't always find them, or make a wise choice when it does.

-----Original Message-----
>From: David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
>Sent: Apr 29, 2008 6:57 PM
>To: wine-users at winehq.org
>Subject: Re: [Wine] Weird font in Firefox
>
>2008/4/29 ashaman <wineforum-user at winehq.org>:
>
>> I use PCLinuxOS, and msttcorefonts does not appear to exist in the repositories.  I'm not quite sure if that would help anyway since (to my knowledge) wine doesn't use Linux fonts... does it?
>
>
>It's in some additional repositories. The winetricks script is also a
>good way to install it.
>
>
>- d.
>






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