Wine: font shows blank squares instead of characters.

Hairyloon · Post by **Hairyloon** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 7:35 am

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.

Post by **dimesio** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 8:06 am

Hairyloon wrote: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 · Post by **Billy T** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 4:16 pm

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 **James McKenzie** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 9:35 pm

On 2/6/11 2:16 PM, Billy T wrote:

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 **Charles Davis** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 9:42 pm

On 2/6/11 7:34 PM, James McKenzie wrote:

On 2/6/11 2:16 PM, Billy T wrote:
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 **James McKenzie** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 10:27 pm

On 2/6/11 7:41 PM, Charles Davis wrote:

On 2/6/11 7:34 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
On 2/6/11 2:16 PM, Billy T wrote:
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 **Billy T** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 3:06 am

Charles Davis wrote:On 2/6/11 7:34 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
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 **James McKenzie** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 11:18 pm

On 2/7/11 1:06 AM, Billy T wrote:

Charles Davis wrote:
On 2/6/11 7:34 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
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

stablelad · Post by **stablelad** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:54 pm

[quote="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.[/quote]

I need some help as I am obviously doing something wrong. Have recreated the aliases but the two programs I run on wine - Legacy and Quickbooks - are still not showing the correct fonts. I have tried clearing all font caches, downloaded and reinstalled Wine and Legacy, closed and rebooted all to no avail. The only thing I have noticed is that the aliases that I created from the originals all have an "open with" default of Text Editor App while the aliases that were there before have an "open with" default of Font Book App. Have tried to reset the aliases to use Font Book App but this does not work and the aliases remain as text editor default.

What am I doing wrong?

lyssagale12 · Post by **lyssagale12** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 5:02 am

I never used MS office 2011. I think http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313535 will help you

Lyssa Gale

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