[Bug 44421] New: The font does not display smoothly

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44421

Bug ID: 44421
           Summary: The font does not display smoothly
           Product: Wine
           Version: 3.0
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Mac OS X
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]

Created attachment 60352
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winecfg screen shot

With Xquartz 2.7.8, the font displays correctly.

After installation of Xquartz 2.7.11, the font displays very ugly.

This can be verified by running winecfg after installation of Xquartz 2.7.11.
The fonts displayed on winecfg are very unsmoothly.

[Bug 44421] The font does not display smoothly

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44421

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--- Comment #1 from magiblot  ---
Created attachment 60358
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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.

[Bug 44421] The font does not display smoothly

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44421

--- Comment #2 from magiblot  ---
Created attachment 60359
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Screenshoot featuring the problem NOT being present previously on Office 97

This comment is just for enclosing the second screenshoot. I can't say if this
is a regression or if it's related to the Linux distribution. It would be cool
to know what distribution is shidianwei using.

[Bug 44421] The font does not display smoothly

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44421

--- Comment #3 from Nikolay Sivov  ---
Sounds like a duplicate of bug 41639.

[Bug 44421] The font does not display smoothly

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44421

--- Comment #4 from magiblot  ---
Thanks! Now I know what to search for.
The thing is, I had already tried to load the environment variable
FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35 through .bashrc, but it
didn't make any effect. It only works if I explicitly specify it in the command
line with 'env' (this might be an Arch Linux issue). Does wine offer any tool
or way to set additional environment variables in all the shortcuts (.desktop
files) it has created for programs? (it currently only sets WINEPREFIX for me).