On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 11:04:59 -0800, Duane Clark <dclark@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Marc Williams wrote: > > > > What you're saying surprises me because I got that information right out > > of the online wine manual in the referenced URL. But even if you're > > right, it doesn't seem to make a difference either way because things > > look the same both before and after using those .FON fonts. > > > > The documentation is, unfortunately, frequently out of date. The font > rendering in particular has changed several times over the years, but > not the documentation. > > > > >>The current version of Wine has a few built in replacements for fonts, > >>and perhaps these are too small (it seems like there have been several > >>complaints lately). But if external TrueType fonts are found, Wine > >>should use those. > >> > > > > > > It seems as if wine (and Quicken) are already using the TT fonts that > > are being served up by my font server. At least that's the impression I > > got from the debug output I ran earlier. And the screen fonts all look > > identical to their real Windows counterparts *except* for those that I > > circled. > > 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? I uess I Was hoping that some work under WINEDEBUG would tell me (or Marc in this case) which onts might be getting resized.. > > That said, I wonder if perhaps this is a more subtle problem. For > example, here is an attachment from Quicken 2002 Deluxe. It would appear > to me that "Update" is using the very same font as "Options". And even > on your screen shot, the same font family appears to be used for > "Options" and "Update/Send". It appears only the point size is different. > > I wonder whether there is a fixed amount of space on the button, and if > the width of the string is to long with the normal font point sizing, > than it might chose a smaller point size. I wonder if other buttons, > with shorter strings, are rendered with a larger font? Interesting idea... _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
