[Bug 24923] New: Wine doesn't allow to use/list bitmap fonts like Terminus

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24923

Summary: Wine doesn't allow to use/list bitmap fonts like
                    Terminus
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.3.5
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: gdi32
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Wine doesn't allow to use nor lists system wide bitmap fonts like Terminus
(http://fractal.csie.org/~eric/wiki/Terminus_font).

(checked out by running Notepad - Terminus is not the list of fonts which are
allowed to select/use).

[Bug 24923] Wine doesn't allow to use/list bitmap fonts like Terminus

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24923

--- Comment #1 from Artem S. Tashkinov  2010-10-27 16:27:50 CDT ---
I'm not talking about TTF version of this font, I'm talking about X.org bitmap
font: http://www.is-vn.bg/hamster/terminus-font-4.14.tar.gz

[Bug 24923] Wine doesn't allow to use/list bitmap fonts like Terminus

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24923

Artem S. Tashkinov  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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                URL|                            |http://terminus-font.source
                   |                            |forge.net/

--- Comment #2 from Artem S. Tashkinov  2010-10-27 16:29:23 CDT ---
Sorry that was the wrong URL.

Here's the right one: http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/

[Bug 24923] Bitmap fonts like Terminus are not supported

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24923

Dmitry Timoshkov  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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          Component|gdi32                       |-unknown
           Platform|All                         |Other
            Summary|Wine doesn't allow to       |Bitmap fonts like Terminus
                   |use/list bitmap fonts like  |are not supported
                   |Terminus                    |
           Severity|normal                      |enhancement

--- Comment #3 from Dmitry Timoshkov  2010-10-28 02:12:58 CDT ---
If that's an X11 font then you can disable GDI fonts and use x11drv device
fonts
instead.

[Bug 24923] Bitmap fonts like Terminus are not supported

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24923

--- Comment #4 from Artem S. Tashkinov  2010-10-28 15:29:38 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> If that's an X11 font then you can disable GDI fonts and use x11drv device
> fonts instead.

How can I do that?

And I still want to use TTF fonts and X11 bitmap fonts at the same time without
any hacks/tricks so consider this bug a feature request.

Somehow it's strange that all widget (gtk, Qt, etc) libraries support all Linux
fonts and Wine doesn't.

[Bug 24923] Bitmap fonts like Terminus are not supported

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24923

--- Comment #5 from [e-mail] 2013-06-15 05:29:26 CDT ---
This has not been updated for over 900 days.

Is this still an issue in 1.6-rc2 or higher or is this abandoned ?

[Bug 24923] Bitmap fonts like Terminus are not supported

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24923

--- Comment #6 from Artem S. Tashkinov  2013-06-19 16:21:24 CDT ---
It's still an issue.

[Bug 24923] Bitmap fonts like Terminus are not supported

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24923

--- Comment #7 from Austin English  ---
This is your friendly reminder that there has been no bug activity for over a
year. Is this still an issue in current (1.7.37 or newer) wine? If so, please
attach the terminal output in 1.7.37 (see http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#get_log).

[Bug 24923] Bitmap fonts like Terminus are not supported

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24923

Todd Chester  changed:

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                 CC|                            |[e-mail]

[Bug 24923] Bitmap fonts like Terminus are not supported

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--- Comment #8 from Todd Chester  ---
I got burned by this one too.  Without MS Sans Serif, Lotus Approach's tabs and
Lotus Word Pro's pull up menus at the bottom give microscopic fonts.

fc-match 'MS Sans Serif'
    sserife.fon: "MS Sans Serif" "Regular"

So it is there and active and registered.

I had to copy sserife.fon directly into ".wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts" to
Approach and Word Pro to find it.

Which means I have to remember to do this for every WINEPREFIX I create.

[Bug 24923] Bitmap fonts like Terminus are not supported

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YAOMTC  changed:

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                 CC|                            |[e-mail]

--- Comment #9 from YAOMTC  ---
At least some games created in RPG Maker (such as Space Funeral and the English
translation of OFF) include fonts in Microsoft's bitmap font format (.fon) so
this makes the text in those games ugly and difficult to read.