Moin, Marcus last patch to add default paths for afm files triggered a bug: Inside my font dirs, there is a directory that contains gzipped afm files. After I unzipped these files, wine started up again. Not nice. Ciao Jörg PS: This is the directory *after* decompression of the .afm.gz files: jmayer(a)alice:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 > ls UTBI____.afm c0419bt_.afm c0632bt_.afm cour.afm cursor.pfa lcdxro.afm UTBI____.pfa c0419bt_.pfb c0632bt_.pfb cour.pfa encodings.dir lcdxro.pfa UTB_____.afm c0582bt_.afm c0633bt_.afm courb.afm fonts.dir lcdxrr.afm UTB_____.pfa c0582bt_.pfb c0633bt_.pfb courb.pfa fonts.scale lcdxrr.pfa UTI_____.afm c0583bt_.afm c0648bt_.afm courbi.afm lcdxmo.afm lcdxso.afm UTI_____.pfa c0583bt_.pfb c0648bt_.pfb courbi.pfa lcdxmo.pfa lcdxso.pfa UTRG____.afm c0611bt_.afm c0649bt_.afm couri.afm lcdxmr.afm lcdxsr.afm UTRG____.pfa c0611bt_.pfb c0649bt_.pfb couri.pfa lcdxmr.pfa lcdxsr.pfa jmayer(a)alice:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 > -- Joerg Mayer <jmayer(a)loplof.de> I found out that "pro" means "instead of" (as in proconsul). Now I know what proactive means.