http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12144
--- Comment #2 from Lei Zhang thestig@google.com 2008-03-26 12:05:24 --- (In reply to comment #1)
Confirming this bug with Ubuntu 7.10. It worked with wine 0.9.57, so this looks like a regression.
Are you sure you weren't using native gdiplus? It's very unlikely an older version of Wine would work when the function is not implemented in the current version.