[SOLVED] Re: Picasa2- works great, one font issue

[Matthew Mastracci]

Okay - I checked out the latest Wine from CVS and it seems to be fixed.  
I think this patch was the one that fixed it:

revision 1.82
date: 2005/02/25 13:59:22;  author: julliard;  state: Exp;  lines: +9 -9
TANABE Hiroshi  wrote:
Remove (buf && !buflen) checking.
Fixed outline rendering with GGO_GRAY?_BITMAP option.
Improved fixed-pitch fonts detection.

Here's some screenshots from the program while running:

http://www.grack.com/news/Picasa2underWine.html

Note that clicking the "email" button in Picasa will crash it - probably 
the MAPI stubs that cause it:

err:mapi:MAPILogon Stub
fixme:seh:EXC_RtlRaiseException call (from 0x53e297) to unimplemented 
function mapi32.dll.MAPISendMail

Thanks,
Matt.

Matthew Mastracci wrote:
> I tried out the latest Picasa2 (picasa2-setup-1884.exe) on a whim 
> against the Wine 20050111 package and it works great.  There don't 
> seem to be any major functionality issues and the app is very 
> responsive - it almost feels like a native gnome app.
>
> The one visual issue with the program is that certain fonts within the 
> program seem to be blitted incorrectly:
>
> http://www.grack.com/news/Picasa2underWine.html
>
> It appears that Picasa 2 might ship with some pre-computed 
> alpha-blended fonts in the form of ".ytf" files in the runtime 
> directory.  When I move these fonts out of the way, all the fonts 
> (including those fonts used to create the 
> Import/Slideshow/Timeline/etc. buttons) within the program appear 
> screwed up like the album-title fonts do when those files are 
> present.  Note that after copying the generated .ytf files from a 
> Windows '98 installation, all of the characters within Picasa are 
> rendered perfectly.
>
> Where might I start looking for the problem?  I think it has something 
> to do with drawing to backbuffer that eventually gets flushed to disk, 
> since copying the cached font files from a standard Windows install 
> seems to fix the problem.  WINEDEBUG=+gdi doesn't yield much, but I 
> think WINEDEBUG=+bitmap or WINEDEBUG=+font is where I'm supposed to be 
> looking.
>
> Matt.

[Troy Rollo]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:27, Matthew Mastracci wrote:
> Okay - I checked out the latest Wine from CVS and it seems to be fixed.
> I think this patch was the one that fixed it:
>
> revision 1.82
> date: 2005/02/25 13:59:22;  author: julliard;  state: Exp;  lines: +9 -9
> TANABE Hiroshi  wrote:
> Remove (buf && !buflen) checking.
> Fixed outline rendering with GGO_GRAY?_BITMAP option.
> Improved fixed-pitch fonts detection.

Yes, that would be what fixed it. Many DirectX games also had font problems 
fixed by that patch. In fact any application where the fonts looked like 
random noise is likely to have been fixed to that extent by that patch.