[linux-audio-dev] missing fonts in VST plugins

[Dave Phillips]

Hi Michael:

  I tried your method, got no joy. Here's what's in my 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts :

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/fonts.cache-1
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/fonts.dir
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/fonts.scale
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luximb.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luximbi.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luximr.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luximri.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luxirb.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luxirbi.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luxirr.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luxirri.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luxisb.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luxisbi.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luxisr.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luxisri.ttf

  And here's what's in c/windows/Fonts :

/home/dlphilp/c/windows/Fonts/ENGRFE__.TTF
/home/dlphilp/c/windows/Fonts/ENGRFS__.TTF
/home/dlphilp/c/windows/Fonts/ENGRTH__.TTF
/home/dlphilp/c/windows/Fonts/ENGRTN__.TTF
/home/dlphilp/c/windows/Fonts/ENGRTT__.TTF
/home/dlphilp/c/windows/Fonts/ENGRT___.TTF
/home/dlphilp/c/windows/Fonts/JazzCord.ttf
/home/dlphilp/c/windows/Fonts/JazzPerc.ttf
/home/dlphilp/c/windows/Fonts/JazzText.ttf
/home/dlphilp/c/windows/Fonts/Jazz____.ttf
/home/dlphilp/c/windows/Fonts/Jazzte__.ttf
/home/dlphilp/c/windows/Fonts/MAESP___.TTF
/home/dlphilp/c/windows/Fonts/MAESTRO_.TTF
/home/dlphilp/c/windows/Fonts/MAESW___.TTF
/home/dlphilp/c/windows/Fonts/PE.TTF
(+ symlinks to the contents in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF)

  Am I perhaps missing some essential fonts ?

  Debugging is a bit problematic itself. I'm using vstserver/vsti and 
libfst/jack_fst to launch and run VST/VSTi plugins, and AFAICT there's 
no debugging switches for those utilities. Any further suggestions ?

  I've kept my ~/.wine/config file at its default values, I'll try 
playing around with it today to see what I can do with it.

  Thanks for your help !

Best regards,

dp



Michael Ost wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 21:23, Dave Phillips wrote:
>  
>
>>  A while ago I was mucking around with fonts to work with Finale under 
>>WINE. I don't know what I did, but now when I run a VST instrument the 
>>fonts have been replaced by little empty squares. If anyone can help 
>>I'll provide the details and images to clarify what's happening. I'm 
>>hoping it's an easy fix...
>>    
>>
>
>I can't explain your problem specifically, but we have had good luck
>solving various font problems by using Wine's own font rendering. We put
>symlinks to truetype fonts in c/windows/Fonts (whereever that is on your
>system). We symlinked from TTF fonts preinstalled with X at
>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/*.ttf.
>
>This cleared up lots of font problems we were having on various
>machines.
>
>Fonts with X were a nightmare. I spent days on them and was still left
>confused.  This has been easy and works well for us. And it lets X apps
>and Wine apps use the same font files. 
>
>There are also some font aliases and settings in $HOME/.wine/config
>which let you say what the default font is, where fonts can be found,
>and so on.
>
>Finally, you can turn on debug tracing in wine and see what fonts it is
>looking for. With recent wines try something like:
>
>WINEDEBUG=+trace,font wine (your app here)
>or
>WINEDEBUG=+trace,text wine (your app here)
>
>Wine will tell you what it is up to, and what font it is substituting
>for the requested font.
>
>- mo
>
>PS: you've got to have a fairly recent Wine for this to work. I think
>TrueType support showed up last Summer or so...?
>
>
>  
>