On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 19:20 +0200, Hans Leidekker wrote: > On Friday 25 May 2007, mark cox wrote: > > > Scott, That wasn't what i was thinking when i suggested it to Dan. If users > > tests the fonts with wine, which they can now do using winetricks, i was > > hoping that the font names could be remapped/hacked so that the names of the > > mscorefonts map to the redhat fonts. If that is successful, the fonts could > > be included in wine and we wouldn't need mscorefonts anymore. > > Yes, we should be able to eliminate a number of font related bugs by > shipping with these fonts. Apps like Picasa [1] appear to ask for a > specific font name, others even reference the font file directly. > > There's another bug where if an app installs the first truetype font > in Wine all subsequent text is shown with that font [2]. > All right, clearly we need to handle this somehow. I'm just thinking that there needs to be a way to install these fonts WITHOUT Wine such that they're available to non-Wine programs, and that when a user has done that Wine should then reference those fonts rather than duplicate them.
Something like a (free) Wine-fonts package, which would be a dependency of Wine. I didn't mean adding them to the mscorefonts type packages (which currently isn't a dependency of Wine) > These bugs can be worked around by installing corefonts. > > I have attached a script that changes the filenames of the Liberation > fonts as well as the font names inside the files to match native. > It requires fontforge to be installed and assumes you have already > loaded the Liberation fonts, with winetricks for example: > > $ wget www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks > $ sh winetricks liberation > $ sh convert_fonts > > -Hans > > [1] http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4346 > [2] http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8338 > Won't this potentially result in duplicate fonts on a system, though? Thanks, Scott Ritchie
