https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44421
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--- Comment #1 from magiblot magiblot@hotmail.com --- Created attachment 60358 --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=60358 Screenshot showing the problem on Office 97
This issue should be looked into. I have the same problem.
I'm on Arch Linux x86_64 and I have tried the two packages avaiable at the moment, 'wine 3.0-1' and 'wine-staging 2.21-1' from the multilib repository (the ones you don't have to compile yourself). (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/multilib/x86_64/wine/ , https://www.archlinux.org/packages/multilib/x86_64/wine-staging/)
It happens just after installing Microsoft Office 97, no matter what components of it I choose to install. After copying all the files, it reports something like 'Updating system settings' and just after that small fonts begin looking bad. It was working well on my previous OpenSUSE Leap 42.2 installation, where I had the package 'wine-staging-2.21-719.1.x86_64', though I had probably installed Office in a previous version. I don't have that OpenSUSE installation anymore.
I can confirm winecfg displays properly before installing Office and bad after doing it, just like the OP showed.
I'm enclosing two pictures: one without the problem in OpenSUSE and one with it, in Arch Linux. Every time I generate a new Wine prefix, it looks alright, but once the Office setup finishes it gets screwed up. I tried replacing the registry files system.reg, user.reg and userdef.reg with the ones from a clean Wine prefix, but that didn't solve it.
I have both wine-mono and wine_gecko installed as well.
I tried many of the suggestions one finds when googling "ugly small fonts in wine", but none helped. Some of them consist in intalling fonts to the system and then creating soft links into C:\Windows\Fonts, so all that has already been tried.
Thanks.