2007/12/29, Ove Kaaven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Christoph Pfister skrev: > > 2007/12/29, Ove Kaaven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Christoph Pfister skrev: > >>> Package: wine > >>> Version: 0.9.52-1 > >>> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I found out that the marlett font is broken at the moment (see > >>> attached snapshot - characters are just garbage). The problem seems to > >>> be fontforge (!), because using an older version from etch > >>> (0.0.20061019-1) during the build solves the issue. > >> Hmm. I'm not sure how you generated that snapshot. Perhaps you could > >> show what it's *supposed* to look like, too? I mean, as far as I know, > >> Marlett *is* a symbol font, kind of like Symbol or Wingdings, except > >> it's used for Windows GUI elements, such as the "X" close button in the > >> corner of a window; it's not at all something you can actually write > >> legible text with. (Tahoma is much better for that.) Which means I'm not > >> sure what exactly is wrong here; without more information, that snapshot > >> looks just like what I'd expect from a symbol font. > > > > Ok, seems you're right with the symbol font. I only described the > > symptoms, not the causes. So I did the following steps: > > > > 1) installing 0.9.52 from debian; leads to the char garbage attached > > to last mail > > 2) replacing "/usr/share/wine/fonts/marlett.ttf" with one that was > > generated by older fontforge (but still a symbol font by looking at > > KFontView); leads to the correct appearance > > > > Attached is a correct snapshot (the area inside the red box is > > relevant), unfortunately I can't provide you a testcase (I'll look > > around a bit whether I find one). > > > > I don't have any real clue why this happens; maybe newer fontforge > > creates wrong meta info or the font from older fontforge is somehow > > discarded, I don't know :/ > > Could you try installing the msttcorefonts package? Does that fix the > problem?
Yes, the problem isn't present when msttcorefonts is installed. Thanks, Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
