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Neffi

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Registered: 2014-05-01

Posts: 2

[Solved] Unreadable fonts in Wine applications

Just did a fresh install of Arch today, and all font rendering in Wine application looks like a mess. See below.

Font rendering in all native applications is fine. Default fonts are configured via Xfce to Source Sans Pro, but I've also got ttf-ms-fonts, ttf-tahoma and ttf-vista-fonts installed, plus all the usual fonts pulled in as dependencies of Xorg, Xfce, Chromium, etc. I'm pretty certain I'm not missing any needed fonts. Aside from adding a few OTF fonts to ~/.fonts and rebuilding the font cache with `fc-cache -f -v`, I have not touched the default settings for fonts anywhere in the system.

I have tried a fresh wine prefix. I have tried adding the registry fix described >on the Wine wiki page<.

Two days ago I was running Arch on this machine with the same system configuration. I uninstalled Arch, but backed up all configuration. I did not have this issue previously; font rendering in Wine was fine out of the box.

Not sure what to try next, so I'm hoping somebody else has experienced and solved the issue.

Last edited by Neffi (2015-07-04 17:51:43)

whoops

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Registered: 2009-03-19

Posts: 891

Re: [Solved] Unreadable fonts in Wine applications

Phew... I have seen EXACTLY that kind of garbled text, but can't remember exactly what the problem was

It wasn't wine directly which is also why it took me hours to find it... I tried a thousand different things that didn't work first...

Maybe something with FXAA or "texture sharpening" and window manager composting? Might save you some time if you take a look at your graphics card control panel / desktop compositor effects settings before you continue fighting with wine.

Good luck!

grandmouse

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From: germany, bonn

Registered: 2005-05-14

Posts: 90

Re: [Solved] Unreadable fonts in Wine applications

Xfce set no subpixel order by default (Settings->Appearance->Fonts).
Try RGB.

Neffi

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Registered: 2014-05-01

Posts: 2

Re: [Solved] Unreadable fonts in Wine applications

Xfce set no subpixel order by default (Settings->Appearance->Fonts).
Try RGB.

Tried this as well after posting this. Wasn't the issue. Turned out to be the font files. I had been using them for a while across Arch, Debian and FreeBSD installs. Either Arch imported a new Wine version that interprets the hinting information in the fonts differently, or one of them became corrupted when backing up -- maybe a flipped bit.

Anyway, font removed and replaced with stock fonts from the repos, and it's fixed now. Thanks all.

Last edited by Neffi (2015-07-04 17:53:25)