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How To Convert Windows Fonts
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If you have access to Windows installation you should use
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fnt2bdf utility (found in the 'tools)' directory to convert
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bitmap fonts (VGASYS.FON, SSERIFE.FON, and SERIFE.FON) into
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the format that X Window System can recognize.
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Step 1. Extract bitmap fonts with 'fnt2bdf'.
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Step 2. Convert .bdf files produced by the Step 1 into
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.pcf files with 'bdftopcf'.
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Step 3. Copy .pcf files to the font server directory which
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is usually /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc (you will probably
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need superuser privileges). If you want to create a new
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font directory you will need to add it to the font path.
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Step 4. Run 'mkfontdir' for the directory you copied fonts to.
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If you are already in X you should run 'xset fp rehash'
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to make X server aware of the new fonts.
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Step 5. Edit wine.conf file to remove aliases for the fonts
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you've just installed.
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Wine can get by without these fonts but 'the look and feel'
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will be quite different. Also, some applications try to load
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their custom fonts on the fly (WinWord 6.0) and since Wine does
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not implement this yet it instead prints out something like;
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STUB: AddFontResource( somefile.FON )
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You can convert this file too. Note that .FON file may not hold
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any bitmap fonts and fnt2bdf will fail if this is the case.
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What to do with TrueType fonts? There are several commercial
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font tools that can convert them to the Type1 format but the
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quality of the resulting fonts is far from stellar. The other
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way to use them is to get a font server capable of rendering
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TrueType (Caldera has one).
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However, there is a possibility of the native TrueType support
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via FreeType renderer in the future (hint, hint :-)
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WINE.CONF And Font Mapper
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=========================
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Many Windows applications assume that fonts included in original Windows 3.1
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distribution (Arial, Times New Roman, MS Sans Serif, etc.) are always present.
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In order to make font mapper choose a closely related font you can add aliases
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to the [fonts] section.
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AliasN = [Windows font], [X font] <, optional "mask X font" flag>
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Example:
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Alias0 = System, --international-, mask
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Alias1 = Arial, -adobe-helvetica-
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Alias2 = Times New Roman, -adobe-times-
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...
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Comments:
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There must be no gaps in the sequence {0, ..., N} otherwise all aliases
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after the first gap won't be read.
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Usually font mapper translates X font names into font names visible to
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Windows programs in the following fashion:
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X font Converted name
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-adobe-helvetica-... "Helvetica"
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-adobe-utopia-... "Utopia"
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-misc-fixed-... "Fixed"
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-...
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-sony-fixed-... "Sony Fixed" (already have "Fixed")
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-...
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Only converted names appear in the font selection dialogs. However,
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if there is an alias with the "mask" flag set converted name will be
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replaced by this alias.
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--international- "System"
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Nonmasking aliases are translated only when program asks for a font
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with the name that matches an alias.
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If you do not have an access to Windows fonts mentioned in the first
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paragraph you should try to substitute them with similar X fonts.
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Alias.. = System, ...bold font without serifs
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Alias.. = MS Sans Serif, ...helvetica-like font
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Also, some Windows applications request fonts without specifying the
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typeface name of the font. Font table starts with Arial in most Windows
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installations, however X font table starts with whatever is the first line
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in the fonts.dir. Therefore WINE uses the following entry to determine
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which font to check first.
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Example:
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Default = -adobe-times-
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Comments:
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It is better to have a scalable font family (bolds and italics included)
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as the default choice because mapper checks all available fonts until
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requested height and other attributes match perfectly or the end of the
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font table is reached.
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Cached Font Metrics
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WINE stores detailed information about available fonts in the ~/.wine/.cachedmetrics
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file. You can copy it elsewhere and add this entry to the [fonts] section
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in the WINE.CONF:
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FontMetrics = <file with metrics>
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If WINE detects changes in the X font configuration it will rebuild font
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metrics from scratch and then it will overwrite ~/.wine/.cachedmetrics with
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the new information. This process can take a while.
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