font issues

[luis lenders]

Hi, what i find rather confusing in current wine , is
that it only tries to use the fonts in
~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts. Lets say i'm a new user
and i want to try out wine. I create a new directory
~/.wine and i try to install for example Guitar pro
demo:
http://213.246.36.227/download/GP4DEMO_EN.EXE

After install i try the program but it doesn't run
(there's a bug) So i want to change settings via
winecfg. I end up with the following screen: (see
attachment) This is because Guitar Pro places some
weird font in ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts. Of course
can remove the font again or copy other fonts to
~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts but this is beyond the
knowledge of new wine users i guess. Is there a simple
way to avoid these kinds of issues?

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On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 08:44:00 +0200, luis lenders   
wrote:
> Hi, what i find rather confusing in current wine , is
> that it only tries to use the fonts in
> ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts.

Yes, winecfg does not seem to be as complete/flexible as the old  
.wine/config method yet.

Lets say i'm a new user
> and i want to try out wine. I create a new directory
> ~/.wine and i try to install for example Guitar pro
> demo:
> http://213.246.36.227/download/GP4DEMO_EN.EXE
>
> After install i try the program but it doesn't run
> (there's a bug) So i want to change settings via
> winecfg. I end up with the following screen: (see
> attachment) This is because Guitar Pro places some
> weird font in ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts. Of course
> can remove the font again or copy other fonts to
> ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts but this is beyond the
> knowledge of new wine users i guess. Is there a simple
> way to avoid these kinds of issues?

It seems that you need to determine what this app is doing to screw up std  
fonts on wine. Since this presumably does not mess up a windows system  
this is presumably a weakness in wine/winecfg that needs to be adressed.

The use of $WINDOWS/fonts by winecfg and the app seems perfectly normal,  
so why is this doing odd things.

If you can recover a working wine (preferably you will have kept a tarball  
of wine before installing GP4 so you can roll back easily) you can compare  
ls -ail windows/fonts before and after and do a diff on the .reg files in  
~/.wine before and after to see if it is changing some font related reg  
keys.

HTH

[Francois Gouget]

On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, luis lenders wrote:
> Hi, what i find rather confusing in current wine , is
> that it only tries to use the fonts in
> ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts.

This is incorrect. Wine queries fontconfig to locate the regular 
client-side fonts and will use any TrueType or bitmap fonts it finds 
there.
> I end up with the following screen: (see
> attachment) This is because Guitar Pro places some
> weird font in ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts.

Maybe you have no TrueType font available anywhere else on your system. 
But that seems very unlikely. Or the application is specifying the font 
it wants to use in some broken way which causes Wine to select the wrong 
font. This seems more likely and then Wine should be fixed. 
Unfortunately I don't know more on the subject so I can't help you 
further but maybe someone on the list can.

Now whether winecfg should only list the fonts present in 
c:\Windows\Fonts or all available fonts may be open to some debate.