My one win app that makes me a devotee of WINE is TablEdit (demo at www.tabledit.com/download/tabled32.exe) has a custom font , tef260.ttf, that has failed to display since somewhere after ver 9.6. The program installs the font into c:\windows\font, but can not display it within the program, instead displaying for the most part, empty squares.
I tried putting/removing tef260.ttf into /usr/local/share/wine/fonts, /usr/local/share/fonts, and the wine windows/fonts directories in all permutations. The only way I got it to display was to remove ALL fonts from these three directories and install tef260.ttf into an X11 font directory along with other win ttf fonts. This forces WINE to build a cachedmetrics file like it used to, and the font is displayed properly in the program.
Hope this is a clue for some developer, as I merely lurk here, looking for clues about wine behavior. I can't do a regression back to ver 9.6 (the version I was using that last worked) because my upgrades to freetype cause it to complain of missing functions.
current (pertinent ? ) specs libfreetype.so.6.3.7 ] built from source libfontconfig.so.1.0.4 ] built from source fontforge 20060715 ] built from source WINE 0.9.20 ] built from source kernel 2.6.17.11 Slack current (10.2, with upgrades from "current" tree)