Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1479297
Tahoma font rendering broken after upgrade from 25 to 26
Last modified: 2017-08-18 11:54:34 EDT
Created attachment 1310501 [details] Broken Rendering Description of problem: Since I upgraded from Fedora 25 to 26, the rendering of the Tahoma font as used by wine is broken. Usually, the embedded bitmaps are used to provide a perfect rendering, but now it seems that anti-aliasing is disabled and the embedded bitmaps are ignored. See attachment what it currently looks like - definitely not what you'd expect and very annoying when using Windows-applications under Wine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Not sure as it might be related to the font, freetype or any other font-renderer involved How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install wine 2. Run "wine regedit" 3. Observe Font Actual results: Ugly rendering as in the attachment Expected results: Perfect rendering as in http://www.onecomputerguy.com/images/regedit1.gif Additional info:
I cannot reproduce the issue. Can you try with a fresh wine prefix and report if it still renders the same? WINEPREFIX=~/wine-test regedit
Yes, absolutely identical
UPDATE: when I remove msttcorefonts, it renders as beautiful as ever. Maybe something changed in the order in which the font dirs are used?
The msttcorefonts package is not a Fedora package so I cannot say. If I had to guess the msttcorefonts no longer render well with freetype. FYI: We also ship a (optional) Tahoma system font in a package: wine-tahoma-fonts-system
You should check out bug 1470509 to see if it relates to your issue. "If you prefer the older hinting engine, you can select it by setting environment variable "FREETYPE_PROPERTIES" to "truetype:interpreter-version=35" "
Yes, that's the solution. It's probably, because the fonts shipped with wine have good hinting for the newer engine, but I prefer using the original MS fonts with freetype-world. Excellent, thanks for the solution!