Re: [Bug 7503] Eve Online pasword box on login screen doesn't work

[Lei Zhang]

Can we change wineprefixcreate to copy the truetype fonts (if any) from
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF or /usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF or [insert
distro specific X11/fonts/TTF directory] to
$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/windows/fonts/ ?

On 2/20/07, Wine Bugs  wrote:
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7503
>
> ------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2007-20-02 16:57 -------
> to fix the issue you need to copy the font file arial.ttf into
> .wine/drive_c/windows/fonts folder (.wine is a hidden folder)
>
> the arial.ttf can be found in the mscorefonts packages or search engine/windows box
>
> I don't know if font files should be placed in the fonts folder by wine or by
> the user. So close this bug or keep it open until basic fonts are installed by
> wine when creating the .wine folder.
>
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[Bug 7503] Eve Online pasword box on login screen doesn't work

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Lei Zhang"  wrote:
> Can we change wineprefixcreate to copy the truetype fonts (if any) from
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF or /usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF or [insert
> distro specific X11/fonts/TTF directory] to
> $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/windows/fonts/ ?

No. It's the distribution's duty to put ttf fonts in the path available
through the fontconfig APIs.

[Bug 7503] Eve Online pasword box on login screen doesn't work

[Frank Richter]

On 21.02.2007 03:31, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> "Lei Zhang"  wrote:
> > Can we change wineprefixcreate to copy the truetype fonts (if any) from
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF or /usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF or [insert
> > distro specific X11/fonts/TTF directory] to
> > $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/windows/fonts/ ?
>
> No. It's the distribution's duty to put ttf fonts in the path available
> through the fontconfig APIs.

Unless the game tries to read the .TTF file directly from the
Windows\Fonts directory. (For e.g. "custom" rendering without GDI. I
don't know if that's the case, but it's a possibility.)

-f.r.

[Bug 7503] Eve Online pasword box on login screen doesn't work

[Lei Zhang]

On 2/20/07, Dmitry Timoshkov  wrote:
> "Lei Zhang"  wrote:
> > Can we change wineprefixcreate to copy the truetype fonts (if any) from
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF or /usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF or [insert
> > distro specific X11/fonts/TTF directory] to
> > $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/windows/fonts/ ?
>
> No. It's the distribution's duty to put ttf fonts in the path available
> through the fontconfig APIs.
>
> --
> Dmitry.

While testing GetTextMetric, I noticed on my Slackware machine
fontconfig/fontconfig.h is in the wrong location and as a result Wine
does not load any fonts through fontconfig. I'll submit a patch
shortly so that ./configure warns about this.