> This is very strange. I was expecting, that Wine Arial looks the same > like Windows Arial.
I think that your expectations are very unrealistic because Arial is a proprietary font and cannot be distributed as free software. There is a 25 year old version of Arial that is part of the Microsoft Web Fonts package, but it must be installed in a special way. I think that this package however is very useful, because the Microsoft Web Fonts are very well hinted. If you have a MS-Windows license and software on the same PC you have the Microsoft Arial and *probably* you can use it under GNU/Linux legally *on the same PC only*. Regardless, FreeType probably won't rasterize it in exactly the same way as the Microsoft rasterizer, at least in antialiased mode, and probably WINE's own text engine will likely lay out text in way different way from the Microsoft one. In the same way as if you put Microsoft Arial in a MacOS X systems. My guess: it is rather unlikely that text output under WINE will look identical to that under MS-Windows, even if you use the Microsoft Arial. It may look closer, or even identical if you also put under WINE a copy of the original Microsoft glyph and text rendering DLLs, which is *probably" legal if you have MS-Windows licensed and installed on the same PC.
