It appears that a check needs to be made in ps.c. The method PSDRV_WriteSetFont passes the parameter size. In some early Win 95 versions there was a bug that required that parameter to be negative and some early windows programs make size negative. This produces garbage. It appears that Windows checks and if that parameter is negative that it is changed to posative. I put a patch to make this check into our copies of Wine without any problem but I do not suggest a patch. I would like the maintainer of the Postscript driver to do that as there is a possibility of other consequences. It may be that this change can be made in ps.c or it may be that it must be accompanied by a flag in the config file also. One program that will not run without the patch is DeScribe but I know there are others.
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 12:33:46PM -0500, gslink wrote:
It appears that a check needs to be made in ps.c. The method PSDRV_WriteSetFont passes the parameter size. In some early Win 95 versions there was a bug that required that parameter to be negative and some early windows programs make size negative. This produces garbage. It appears that Windows checks and if that parameter is negative that it is changed to posative. I put a patch to make this check into our copies of Wine without any problem but I do not suggest a patch. I would like the maintainer of the Postscript driver to do that as there is a possibility of other consequences. It may be that this change can be made in ps.c or it may be that it must be accompanied by a flag in the config file also. One program that will not run without the patch is DeScribe but I know there are others.
How's this?
Huw.
If you feel that that will handle the problem without causing another then please submit the patch. I suspect a flag in config is not necessary but people who submit patches to something as complex as Wine without fully understanding the problem usually cause a problem.
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