how do I get Wine to pick up new fonts I install in Linux?

[ToddAndMargo2]

Hi All,

After I install a new font into Linux, how do I get that new font(s) to load into Wine?

That is, other than copying it into the wine fonts directory manually. I want the new fonts to load into any new WINEPREFIX I create.

Many thanks,
-T

[dimesio]

Wine should automatically see any fonts installed systemwide.

[ToddAndMargo2]

Wine should automatically see any fonts installed systemwide.

Well ...

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$ fc-match 'MS Sans Serif'
    sserife.fon: "MS Sans Serif" "Regular"

So it is there and active and registered.

I had to copy sserife.fon directly into ".wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts" to Approach and Word Pro to find it.

Any idea what is going wrong? Time to file a bug?

Many thanks,
-T

[dimesio]

Sorry, I was only thinking of truetype fonts. Wine doesn't use systemwide bitmap fonts; there's already an enhancement bug for that. https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24923

[ToddAndMargo2]

Sorry, I was only thinking of truetype fonts. Wine doesn't use systemwide bitmap fonts; there's already an enhancement bug for that. https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24923

Just signed up for the bug. Thank you!