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@xxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Apr 29, 2008 6:57 PM >To: wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: Weird font in Firefox > >2008/4/29 ashaman <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx>: > >> 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. >
