21 Jul
2004
21 Jul
'04
1:52 a.m.
Greetings:
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fonts have been replaced by little empty squares.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...
Best,
dp
21 Jul
21 Jul
2:26 a.m.
On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 21:23, Dave Phillips wrote:
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...?
10:13 a.m.
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:
11:59 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-dev] missing fonts in VST plugins: RESOLVED
Hi Michael:
After some Googling I realiuzed I simply didn't have the original MS
TTF fonts anywhere on my system, so I grabbed them from my Better Half's
machine, installed them, edited /etc/XF86Config, and still got no joy.
Then I tried as you suggested, linking the fonts from
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/msttfonts to ~/c/windows/Fonts, and voila, I
have fonts in the plugins again. Thanks for the suggestion !
Best,
dp
Michael Ost wrote:
12:22 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-dev] missing fonts in VST plugins: RESOLVED
[...] I didn't have the original MS TTF fonts
anywhere on my system,
so I grabbed them from my Better Half's machine
For those of you that don't have a Better Half (that runs Windows), you
can download these fonts from the http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
download pages.
You also need cabextract http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php to
extract the .exe files.
(This is what the Debian msttcorefonts package does, that's how I found
out)
maarten
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