Fonts messed up in Wine

[matthewm27]

I have ubuntu installed, and I installed Wine to install Dreamweaver, Photoshop, etc, I installed everything, and the fonts are not working at all. They are smooshed together and look horrible. I have already tried copying the fonts on my Windows partition to the fonts folder in Wine... and NOTHING. Please help. I have attached a picture that explains what it looks like.

[matthewm27]

Bump

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re bump.

Same problem for me. Wish I could find a solution.

[ajcham]

Try

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

(or install the package using Synaptic if you prefer)

[matthewm27]

Thanks for the re bump censored. Ajcham, The link you gave me didn't work.

[SocratesTNR]

I had the same problem. The solution was to add a line to some kind of configuration file. Sorry, can't remember anymore details than that.

I've moved my copy of Photoshop, off my old i486 Windows 95 box and on to my new, running wine under ubuntu. Quite peachy.

[ajcham]

Ajcham, The link you gave me didn't work.

Do you mean it wouldn't install, or installing didn't fix the problem?

If the former, make sure you have the multiverse repository enabled (there'll be some info somewhere in the forums if you are unsure how to do this).

If it's the latter, I'm afraid I can't help any further. When I had font problems in Wine installing this package fixed it. Not sure what else the cause could be.

[matthewm27]

It installed, but didn't fix the problem. I can try to reboot, but I hate doing that because I have to reconfigure my resolution every time I reboot due to a video driver problem.

[ajcham]

Rebooting wouldn't make a difference.

Sorry I couldn't be of any help. Hope you get the issue (and your graphic driver problem!) sorted.

[matthewm27]

Its ok :D thanks for the help anyway. P.S: My graphic driver problem is that my screen pans. I can only view 640x480 of my screen, but my resolution is 1024x768.

[beyboo]

Did you install the MS Corefonts using Winetricks. Download it here[http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks]. Its a script, save it say in your home folder and run

chmod +x winetricks
./winetricks

Select the MS fonts and see if it makes a difference

Edit : Before you start using winetricks, do run a "sudo apt-get install cabextract". Its needed for installing from all those cab files winetricks downloads.

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Well whatever you do, don't do wineboot. I just tried that, and about half a dozen boxes popped up, with information I couldn't read because the fonts are all screwed up. I tried pressing the buttons, and they wouldn't go away. I tried killing wine at the command line, but the boxes kept re spawing. In the end I had to restart to get rid of them.

[mplexus]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1009930&highlight=wine+fonts

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Your solution, courtesy of one Bakon Jarser

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6371894&postcount=5