[Wine] Wine: font shows blank squares instead of characters.

[Hairyloon]

My WINE installation seems to be working quite well, except for the fact that there is clearly some problem with the fonts: every character displays as a little blank square.
Clearly this makes everything rather hard to read, and many things unusable.

Any suggestions how to fix it?

Thanks.

[dimesio]

Post by Hairyloon
My WINE installation seems to be working quite well, except for the fact that there is clearly some problem with the fonts: every character displays as a little blank square.
Clearly this makes everything rather hard to read, and many things unusable.
Any suggestions how to fix it?

Try winetricks allfonts. http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks

[Billy T]

If you're on a Mac, and have installed MS Office 2011, you may get problems with fonts. It seems that microsoft have decided to change some of the system fonts with their own versions - look in /Library/Fonts and you will see that some of the font files (eg Arial, Times, Verdana, Wingdings) are now links to the MS Fonts. MS moved the originals to /Library/Fonts\ Disabled/) but the links from your wine prefix fonts to these are now broken.

To fix, you need to recreate the links in the Windows\Fonts directory. Easiest is just to delete the font files (aliases) in there and create new shortcuts from the /Library/Fonts folder.

[James McKenzie]

Post by Billy T
If you're on a Mac, and have installed MS Office 2011, you may get problems with fonts. It seems that microsoft have decided to change some of the system fonts with their own versions - look in /Library/Fonts and you will see that some of the font files (eg Arial, Times, Verdana, Wingdings) are now links to the MS Fonts. MS moved the originals to /Library/Fonts\ Disabled/) but the links from your wine prefix fonts to these are now broken.
To fix, you need to recreate the links in the Windows\Fonts directory. Easiest is just to delete the font files (aliases) in there and create new shortcuts from the /Library/Fonts folder.

If you are on a Mac, you can get Office 2011 for the Mac. Why do you
need/want/desire the Windows one?

James McKenzie

[Charles Davis]

Post by James McKenzie

Post by Billy T
If you're on a Mac, and have installed MS Office 2011, you may get
problems with fonts. It seems that microsoft have decided to change
some of the system fonts with their own versions - look in
/Library/Fonts and you will see that some of the font files (eg Arial,
Times, Verdana, Wingdings) are now links to the MS Fonts. MS moved the
originals to /Library/Fonts\ Disabled/) but the links from your wine
prefix fonts to these are now broken.
To fix, you need to recreate the links in the Windows\Fonts directory.
Easiest is just to delete the font files (aliases) in there and create
new shortcuts from the /Library/Fonts folder.

If you are on a Mac, you can get Office 2011 for the Mac. Why do you
need/want/desire the Windows one?

He *is* talking about Office 2011 for the Mac. There is no Office 2011
for Windows.

Chip

[James McKenzie]

Post by Charles Davis

Post by James McKenzie

Post by Billy T
If you're on a Mac, and have installed MS Office 2011, you may get
problems with fonts. It seems that microsoft have decided to change
some of the system fonts with their own versions - look in
/Library/Fonts and you will see that some of the font files (eg Arial,
Times, Verdana, Wingdings) are now links to the MS Fonts. MS moved the
originals to /Library/Fonts\ Disabled/) but the links from your wine
prefix fonts to these are now broken.
To fix, you need to recreate the links in the Windows\Fonts directory.
Easiest is just to delete the font files (aliases) in there and create
new shortcuts from the /Library/Fonts folder.

If you are on a Mac, you can get Office 2011 for the Mac. Why do you
need/want/desire the Windows one?

He *is* talking about Office 2011 for the Mac. There is no Office 2011
for Windows.

Thank you. I'll keep this in mind when we install it later this week.

James McKenzie

[Billy T]

Post by Charles Davis
He *is* talking about Office 2011 for the Mac. There is no Office 2011
for Windows.
Chip

Yes, MS broke Wine for me (came up with nice little squares instead of fonts). Thanks a lot!

[James McKenzie]

Post by Billy T

Post by Charles Davis
He *is* talking about Office 2011 for the Mac. There is no Office 2011
for Windows.
Chip

Yes, MS broke Wine for me (came up with nice little squares instead of fonts). Thanks a lot!

Thank you for the warning.

Office 2011 goes on sometime this week. Right now I'm busy caring for a
very sick animal.

James McKenzie