[Bug 27294] New: livezilla can't start, complains of missing Verdana font

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27294

Summary: livezilla can't start, complains of missing Verdana
                    font
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.3.20
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

A user complained that Livezilla wouldn't start, see
http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=12202

I was able to reproduce this, plus a possible font-related gdiplus bug:

cd $HOME
  rm -rf ~/.wine
  sh winetricks corefonts dotnet20
  wget http://www.livezilla.net/downloads/pubfiles/LiveZilla_3.3.2.2_Full.exe
  wine LiveZilla_3.3.2.2_Full.exe
  cd ~/".wine/drive_c/Program Files/LiveZilla"
  wine LiveZilla

That gets the error
  Your system misses the font Microsoft Sans Serif
Copying micross.ttf from a Windows system into ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts
gets past that.  (Dunno if that needs to be added to winetricks,
or if one of the existing fonts in 'allfonts' should satisfy it.)

The next problem is 
  Your system misses the font Tahoma

Doing
  winetricks tahoma gdiplus
gets past that.  (Don't know why gdiplus was needed, that's interesting.)

The next problem is the user's  error,
  Your system misses the font 'Verdana Regular'

Which is funny, because Verdana Regular is already in windows/Fonts,
and WINEDEBUG=+font shows
trace:font:AddFontToList Loading font file
"/home/dank/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/Fonts/Verdana.TTF" index 0
trace:font:get_familyname Got localised name L"Verdana"
trace:font:AddFontToList fsCsb = 2000019f 00000000/00000287 00000000 00000000
00000000
trace:font:AddFontToList Added font L"Verdana" L"Regular"
...
trace:font:AddFontToList Loading font file
"/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Verdana.ttf" index 0
trace:font:get_familyname Got localised name L"Verdana"
trace:font:AddFontToList Already loaded font L"Verdana" L"Regular" original
version is 10000, this version is 10000
trace:font:AddFontToList Original font is newer so skipping this one

Oddly, at some point, wine forgets about the Regular variant:

trace:font:DumpFontList Family: L"Verdana"
000d:Ret  advapi32.RegGetValueW() retval=0000trace:font:DumpFontList    L"Bold"
2000019f
000d:Call advapi32.RegGetValueW(0000004c,000trace:font:DumpFontList     L"Bold
Italic"  2000019f

Perhaps one of the fonts in /usr/share/fonts is interfering...

[Bug 27294] livezilla can't start, complains of missing Verdana font

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27294

--- Comment #1 from Dan Kegel  2011-05-26 11:15:54 CDT ---
Created an attachment (id=34906)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=34906)
+relay,+font log, filtered with egrep -v "GetLast|Interlocked|Heap|Critical"
and compressed with rzip

Removing the verdana fonts in /usr/share/fonts got rid of the
font dump that lacked Verdana Regular, but didn't help the app.  
Attaching a shorter log obtained by removing the z: symlink; verdana still
shows up in the log, but the app doesn't recognize it.

[Bug 27294] livezilla can't start, complains of missing Verdana font

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27294

--- Comment #2 from Dan Kegel  2011-05-27 09:22:06 CDT ---
The app was originally reported working in
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19329#c23
but that recipe doesn't seem to work anymore, the 
app complains about Microsoft Sans Serif, as noted at the end of
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21976

Oddly, the script

rm -f $HOME/.wine
wine cmd /c echo create .wine
cd $HOME/.wine/drive_c
wget http://winetricks.org/winetricks
wget http://www.livezilla.net/downloads/pubfiles/LiveZilla_3.3.2.2_Full.exe
wine LiveZilla_3.3.2.2_Full.exe /s
sh winetricks -q ie6 dotnet20 mdac28 tahoma corefonts gdiplus
cd "Program Files/LiveZilla"
wine LiveZilla

fails with 
  Your system misses the font Tahoma Regular
even though tahoma is installed.

So the problem moves around from font to font in some strange
order-dependent way...

[Bug 27294] livezilla can't start, complains of missing Verdana font

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27294

Jake Thomas  changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Jake Thomas  2011-06-16 16:02:48 CDT ---
Missing font issue solved:
1. Copy in needed TTF files into [WINEPREFIX]/drive_c/windows/Fonts
2. In the registry of the prefix Livezilla is installed to, in the
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts key, have a string
value for each TTF file in the above mentioned font folder where this string
value has the same exact name (character-for-character, including the " (True
Type)" at the end if it has it. Don't add an extra space at the end or
anything) of the font the font file contains. Give the string value a value
data of the name of the font file, but not the path to it, just the file name.
It already knows to look in the font folder. The ones you see with full paths
are for fonts not in the Fonts folder.

For complete step-by-step instructions of how to get Livezilla working in WINE,
see the "Additional Comments" here:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=23709

Here is the mother thread:
http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=12202&postdays=0&postorder=a...

Cheers,
SpawnHappyJake

[Bug 27294] livezilla can't start, complains of missing Verdana font

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27294

joaopa  changed:

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--- Comment #4 from joaopa  2011-06-16 18:07:21 CDT ---
duplicate of bug 15745

[Bug 27294] livezilla can't start, complains of missing Verdana font

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27294

--- Comment #5 from Rosanne DiMesio  2011-06-19 12:48:07 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> duplicate of bug 15745

No. This app complains about more fonts than just Verdana, and merely copying
the .ttf files to the wineprefix's Fonts directory is not enough to to solve
the problem reported here.

[Bug 27294] livezilla can't start, complains of missing Verdana font

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27294

--- Comment #6 from Dan Kegel  2011-10-01 08:49:41 CDT ---
Jake also mentioned that just having a fake Microsoft Sans Serif is enough: 
"[To get a fake Microsoft Sans Serif that makes Livezilla happy enough,] I
found this tutorial: http://www.fontgeek.net/blog/?p=343 . I adapted it to
Linux and what I was dealing with, and lo and behold, using ttx and gEdit, I
made FreeSans spoof Microsoft Sans Serif! And Livezilla works with the spoof."

[Bug 27294] livezilla can't start, complains of missing Verdana font

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27294

--- Comment #7 from Dan Kegel  2011-10-01 09:05:09 CDT ---
(Sorry, I didn't mean he said only that one font was needed; he just meant
that a fake font is a sufficient substitute for the real one.)

[Bug 27294] livezilla can't start, complains of missing Verdana font

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27294

mimitron  changed:

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--- Comment #8 from mimitron  2013-08-02 11:53:21 CDT ---
I have the same problem with the font Verdana:
http://storage7.static.itmages.ru/i/13/0801/h_1375383678_2404064_9a8edebd71....
http://storage3.static.itmages.ru/i/13/0801/h_1375386978_8786465_88f9e53db6....

Is there currently any way to fix the problem?

[Bug 27294] livezilla can't start, complains of missing Verdana font

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27294

Anastasius Focht  changed:

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[Bug 27294] LiveZilla 3.x/4.x (.NET 2.0 app) complains about missing 'Regular' style TTF fonts on startup ('Verdana Regular', 'Sans Serif Regular', 'Arial Regular')

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27294

Anastasius Focht  changed:

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           Keywords|                            |dotnet, download
                URL|                            |https://www.livezilla.net/d
                   |                            |ownloads/pubfiles/afiles/Li
                   |                            |veZilla_4.0.1.0_Full.exe
                 CC|                            |[e-mail]
            Summary|livezilla can't start,      |LiveZilla 3.x/4.x (.NET 2.0
                   |complains of missing        |app) complains about
                   |Verdana font                |missing 'Regular' style TTF
                   |                            |fonts on startup ('Verdana
                   |                            |Regular', 'Sans Serif
                   |                            |Regular', 'Arial Regular')

--- Comment #9 from Anastasius Focht  ---
Hello folks,

confirming, still present.

Refining summary to target all fonts being complained on

* 'Verdana Regular'
* 'Sans Serif Regular'
* 'Arial Regular'

The issue with the app still complaining about missing 'Regular' style fonts
even if present in '~/.fonts' is 'gdiplus' related (font family processing) and
can be worked around with 'winetricks -q gdiplus'.

$ sha1sum LiveZilla_4.0.1.0_Full.exe 
3f5dc75fc02384d918216ca974a637c917349824  LiveZilla_4.0.1.0_Full.exe

$ du -sh LiveZilla_4.0.1.0_Full.exe 
7.7M    LiveZilla_4.0.1.0_Full.exe

$ wine --version
wine-1.7.24-150-gcf4404c

Regards

[Bug 27294] LiveZilla 3.x/4.x (.NET 2.0 app) complains about missing 'Regular' style TTF fonts on startup ('Verdana Regular', 'Sans Serif Regular', 'Arial Regular')

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27294

--- Comment #10 from Ken Sharp  ---
Still present in wine-1.7.44-199-g714abcb

[Bug 27294] LiveZilla 3.x/4.x (.NET 2.0 app) complains about missing 'Regular' style TTF fonts on startup ('Verdana Regular', 'Sans Serif Regular', 'Arial Regular')

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27294

[e-mail] changed:

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--- Comment #11 from [e-mail] ---
the same 1.7.48

[Bug 27294] LiveZilla 3.x/4.x (.NET 2.0 app) complains about missing ' Regular' style TTF fonts on startup ('Verdana Regular', ' Sans Serif Regular', 'Arial Regular')

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27294

Anastasius Focht  changed:

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                URL|https://www.livezilla.net/d |https://web.archive.org/web
                   |ownloads/pubfiles/afiles/Li |/20190311084940/http://www.
                   |veZilla_4.0.1.0_Full.exe    |onzehost.com.br/downloads/L
                   |                            |iveZilla_3.3.2.2_Full.exe
          Component|-unknown                    |gdiplus

--- Comment #12 from Anastasius Focht  ---
Hello folks,

revisiting, still present.

Installation prerequisite:

* .NET Framework 2.0 -> 'winetricks -q dotnet20' (bug 31002)

'Regular' style TTF fonts workarounds:

* 'winetricks -q verdana arial'
* 'winetricks -q gdiplus'

'Sans Serif Regular' font -> download 'micross.ttf' from:

https://fontzone.net/downloadfile/microsoft-sans-serif

and put it in ~/.fonts

$ sha1sum LiveZilla_3.3.2.2_Full.exe 
f25a903f47dbd146d49cf80974a2f563e74bd9dd  LiveZilla_3.3.2.2_Full.exe

$ du -sh LiveZilla_3.3.2.2_Full.exe 
6.8M    LiveZilla_3.3.2.2_Full.exe

$ wine --version
wine-4.3-229-g6d82b2f1ad

Regards

[Bug 27294] LiveZilla 3.x/4.x (.NET 2.0 app) complains about missing 'Regular' style TTF fonts on startup ('Verdana Regular', 'Sans Serif Regular', 'Arial Regular')

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27294

Jeff Smith  changed:

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--- Comment #13 from Jeff Smith  ---
Note: LiveZilla shut it's doors in 2020, and this software seems of no real use
without the service.

As for the cause of this bug in wine: since Windows 8, GdipGetIsStyleAvailable
always returns TRUE (except if a NULL parameter is passed).  Even prior to
that, there were _very_ few cases where it would return FALSE.  Assuming the
necessary fonts are installed, changing GdipGetIsStyleAvailable to always
return TRUE resolves the bug.

[Bug 27294] LiveZilla 3.x/4.x (.NET 2.0 app) complains about missing 'Regular' style TTF fonts on startup ('Verdana Regular', 'Sans Serif Regular', 'Arial Regular')

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27294

Esme Povirk  changed:

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