On December 13, 2005 12:42 pm, Bill Medland wrote: > I recently changed to a new computer and reinstalled linux. > I'm not happy with the current fonts and I see that the whole > fonts area has been revamped, so any old notes I have are > obsolete. Can anyone help me out? > > The first and major issue is that when an installation program > I am running tries to display "C:\Program Files" it comes out > looking like CWProgram Files. Fixed > > Having run with WINEDEBUG=+font and analysed the 4.3 million > lines of output I see the following: > > The request is to use a "HELV" (-11 0 0 ..2 1) font. > The request is handled by an instance of the "Baekmuk > Headline" "Regular" font. > The original creation of that font (Helv -11...) > a. Didn't find it in the cache > b. Substituted Helv to MS Sans Serif > c. Chose the Baekmuk Headline Regular for that > d. Gave a trace message about "can't find the table" while > loading the file > e. caches that font. > > This, to me, is not what I would expect when there are 252 > Helvetica fonts on the computer. > > A. Can anyone tell me how I can look at a particular ttf file > and see what characters are in it (so that I can see if it has > a \ that looks like a W) Actually it was enough to open an OpenOffice document and play in there. Duh! And yes, the \ is actually painted as a W with two lines through it. Yuck. > B. Can anyone tell me how, given a font (selected through > xfontsel), I can find out what is implementing it (e.g. which > ttf file it is in). So, what I did, for anyone else having similar problems, was override the FontSubstitutes registry entries to select the best font that I could use (Bitstream Vera Sans) for everything. -- Bill Medland mailto:billmedland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://webhome.idirect.com/~kbmed _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
