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mechanic

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Jan 4, 2010, 9:08:42 AM1/4/10
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The font rendering on Dialog running under wine on Linux is
atrocious, apparently something to do with wine itself and not
likely to be fixed anytime soon (so Google tells me). Anyone manages
to get the fonts looking half decent? It's almost enough to turn one
back to slrn...

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Beauregard T. Shagnasty

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Jan 4, 2010, 11:00:38 AM1/4/10
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mechanic wrote:

Get and install the msttcorefonts - which, depending on your distro, may
be in your package manager.

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mechanic

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Jan 5, 2010, 12:07:32 PM1/5/10
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On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 11:00:38 -0500, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

> mechanic wrote:
>
>> The font rendering on Dialog running under wine on Linux is
>> atrocious, apparently something to do with wine itself and not
>> likely to be fixed anytime soon (so Google tells me). Anyone manages
>> to get the fonts looking half decent? It's almost enough to turn one
>> back to slrn...
>
> Get and install the msttcorefonts - which, depending on your
> distro, may be in your package manager.

Yes, I'd already done that, no effect.

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Mike Yetto

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Jan 5, 2010, 12:47:04 PM1/5/10
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Bada bing mechanic <mech...@example.net> bada bang:

I had a similar problem with Xnews under wine. The fix was to
explicitly specify fonts for Xnews that were loaded on the
system.

Apparently wine isn't very good at guessing equivalent fonts.

Mike "wrapping was hit, miss or miss even more" Yetto
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Beauregard T. Shagnasty

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Jan 5, 2010, 1:00:52 PM1/5/10
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mechanic wrote:

Well, then I don't know what else to suggest. I'm using Wine 1.0 with
Ubuntu 8.04, and Dialog displays pretty much exactly as it did pre-2006,
when I switched away from Windows. It was flaky before msttcorefonts,
though.

In Wine, I have select "Windows XP" as the Windows Version on the
Applications tab. In Dialog's Settings->General Settings->Fonts/Colors,
I have selected Tahoma (first two fields) and Courier New (second two).
What fonts are you using there?

Dialog is the only Windows program I use...

Mike Dee

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Jan 6, 2010, 3:56:57 AM1/6/10
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mechanic <mech...@example.net> wrote:

If Dialog (under Wine) is _anything_ like Xnews (under Wine), just
importing the fonts that you want to use over from Windows may not be
all that is required.

To get Xnews to look and act just like it does on MS Windows, I also
needed to copy over a few shared DLLs that it requires.

One native DLL I have found to be absolutely vital for correct *text*
operation for some Windows apps under Wine is riched32.dll

Native Windows DLLs that I use under Wine when running Xnews are:
comctl32.dll
comdlg32.dll
ole32.dll
oleaut32.dll
riched20.dll
riched32.dll

These DLLs I dump into the program's folder in the fake "C-drive"
directory.

Typing winecfg into a terminal, under the "Libraries" tab, I point Wine
towards selecting those DLLs for use by Xnews (OS Win2k).

The "ole" DLLs are what I need to be able to see JPEGs in Xnews, you
may need something like this too. But for proper text display -
riched32.dll has been consistent as being necessary for several Windows
(text centric) apps that I've run under Wine.

On Windows, I ran SysInternals "Process Explorer" (now a MS app) to
determine what DLLs were being used by Xnews, before I determined what
DLLs would likely be needed for Xnews under Wine.

YMMV.

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