Wine 1.8.6 Font issue on Mac

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Wine 1.8.6 Font issue on Mac

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Hi, I use Homebrew to install wine to run .exe file on Mac. I just upgraded to wine-1.8.6 using 'brew upgrade wine". After the upgrade, the font becomes difficult to read because it is not smooth as in version 1.8.5.

I uploaded the screenshot below to show how different between version 1.8.6 and 1.8.5

It happens on both Sierra and El Capitan. Now I switched back to use version 1.8.5 using "brew switch wine 1.8.5"

Appreciate if anyone here know how to solve this issue.
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Re: Wine 1.8.6 Font issue on Mac

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Hey,

Try this:

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winetricks settings fontsmooth=rgb
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Re: Wine 1.8.6 Font issue on Mac

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Thank you, this fix works also for 2.0rc4.
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Re: Wine 1.8.6 Font issue on Mac

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guest3543 wrote:Hey,

Try this:

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winetricks settings fontsmooth=rgb
Wow thanks, it works and solves the problem :)
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Re: Wine 1.8.6 Font issue on Mac

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I have the same issue, running the official Wine 2.0-rc6 package on macOS Sierra (10.12.2) with XQuartz 2.7.11, clean Wine prefix, 1680 x 1050 screen resolution. To me it seems like hinting does not work for TrueType fonts.

I've tried out all the fontsmooth settings and while they do affect anti-aliasing for larger font sizes (see screenshots below), they have no effect on the rendering of the default size UI text. (I don't expect or need it to be anti-aliased anyway, but the rendering is clearly incorrect.)

Another user seems to suffer from this issue as well (viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28345).
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Font hinting seems to be disabled. Please see the full-size image.
Font hinting seems to be disabled. Please see the full-size image.
Anti-aliasing seems to kick in around 17 px font size and mitigate the effect somewhat for larger font sizes, but the rendering still doesn't look correct IMHO.
Anti-aliasing seems to kick in around 17 px font size and mitigate the effect somewhat for larger font sizes, but the rendering still doesn't look correct IMHO.
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Re: Wine 1.8.6 Font issue on Mac

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Hans_N wrote:I have the same issue, running the official Wine 2.0-rc6 package on macOS Sierra (10.12.2) with XQuartz 2.7.11, clean Wine prefix, 1680 x 1050 screen resolution. To me it seems like hinting does not work for TrueType fonts.
What version of Freetype? If it's 2.7, it's probably https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41639.
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Re: Wine 1.8.6 Font issue on Mac

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dimesio wrote:What version of Freetype? If it's 2.7, it's probably https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41639.
The one bundled with XQuartz 2.7.11 which seems to be 2.7.0. You're right, downgrading to XQuartz 2.7.9 solved the issue. I don't know how could I have missed that bug report. Thanks a lot.

I expect a lot of users to be affected by this sooner or later. Maybe it could merit an entry on the Known Issues and/or MacOSX FAQ wiki pages?
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Re: Wine 1.8.6 Font issue on Mac

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The same here. Downgrading to XQuartz 2.7.9 helped.
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