On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 08:26:31PM -0800, Duane Clark wrote: > Huw D M Davies wrote: > > A much better way to do font rendering in Wine is to use the new > > client side rendering code. For this you need an XServer capable of > > supporting the RENDER extension (xdpyinfo will tell you whether you > > have such a beast) and a copy of the FreeType library version at least > > 2.0.5 (but the later the better). Add a [FontDirs] section to your > > ~/.wine/config file, with entries pointing at any directories that > > contain TT fonts... > > This got me to try out the client side rendering.
Good, that was the idea :) > I came across two issues. The first is that virtually all dialogs and > some windows were being drawn too narrow. The window/dialog height was > normal. Actaully it's the code that calculates the size of the dialog units that's wrong. Give me a couple of days and I'll dig out my patch. > The other problem I ran across is shown in these pictures, showing > server and client side rendering. My little hack above had no effect on > this particular problem. > http://www.leewardfpga.com/server.png > http://www.leewardfpga.com/client.png > > As can be seen, the vertical text is getting chopped off slightly. As Francois says this maybe a FreeType bug (versions < 2.0.6 have errors calculating the advance width of certain glyphs. If you could upgrade FreeType and test again that would be very helpful, if it's still a problem we'll take it from there. Thanks, Huw.
