[Bug 24309] New: Recaching Fonts on each start

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24309

Summary: Recaching Fonts on each start
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.3.1
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: fonts
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        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Hi!

The bug is an old one. It was shown in
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17674 but never really fixed. There
seems to be a work around for Mac only. The bug himselves is persisting.

I found that the prob comes with free scalable fonts. A call of
dlls/winex11.drv/xfont.c function XFONT_ReadCachedMetrics fails if any font has
in pfi->df.dfPixelHeight no value. This seems to be so on nearly every free
scalable font. A possible solve is to ask first wether it is a free scalable
font (if(pfi->fi_flags&FI_SCALABLE) {...) and if not to ask wether this value
is zero (...} else if(pfi->df.dfPixelHeight==0) {...).

After this small patch my wine was recaching the fonts (about 16000...) in a
correct manner. A Patch (diff -U...; patch it directly in the winex11.drv
directory) is appended.