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wine and corefonts

August 14th, 2007

It looks like a lot can be mended by installing good fonts. This was a topic in the “Wine Weekly Newsletters 332“, too.

Here is a simple script and howto I made, to download and install the original Microsoft Corefonts for wine, as winetricks are not working on OS X. It makes use of cabextract 1.2, of which I supply a binary.
get the needed files here.

From the README:

HOWTO
1. extract corefonts.zip
2. open applications/utilities/terminal.app
3. cd to the folder "corefonts" (for non cmdline savvies: type "cd", drag the folder "corefonts" into the terminal window, hit return)
4. type "./get_corefonts.sh" (this will download(8mb), extract and install the corefonts to your wine installation)

TROUBLESHOOTING
- maybe you have to make "get_corefonts.sh" executable by typing "chmod u+x get_corefonts.sh"
- restart wine, to make the fonts visible

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4 Responses to “wine and corefonts”

  1. Hello, Mike;

    I’ve found your Darwine Builds VERY helpful.
    Do have aquestion or two, though.
    And… I admit that I really couldn’t find the right item to use for a comment to contact you. My apologies.

    1) I note that Darwine uses the freetype fonts too. There are now two types of them and I don’t know which is correct to use. I have FINK and installing either one did not cure the comments that Darwine couldn’t fine them.

    2) I am trying to run The Master Genealogist in Darwine. Others have had success, once DCOM98 is installed. I tried to follow the instructions in the following link, in order to install it: “http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/2007-February/024493.html”. I’m quite rusty on UNIX and can’t get the DCOM98.EXE to run. I get the following message:
    Welcome to Darwin!
    gary-gauthiers-computer:~ garygauthier$ WINEDLLOVERRIDES=”ole32=n” $WINE /Users/garygauthier/Desktop/DCOM98.EXE
    -bash: /Users/garygauthier/Desktop/DCOM98.EXE: Permission denied
    gary-gauthiers-computer:~ garygauthier$

    Can you help? I think it is just setting the permissions and can’t remember how.

    Regards;
    Gary

    Comment by Gary — September 16, 2007 @ 20:45

  2. @ Gary

    txs :)

    1. I’m using this litte script to download and install the fonts:

    export FREETYPE_VERSION=2.3.5
    curl http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-$FREETYPE_VERSION.tar.gz > freetype-$FREETYPE_VERSION.tar.gz
    tar xfz freetype-$FREETYPE_VERSION.tar.gz
    cd freetype-$FREETYPE_VERSION
    ./configure
    sudo make install
    cd ..

    2. try:
    chmod a+x /Users/garygauthier/Desktop/DCOM98.EXE
    maybe you have to
    sudo chmod a+x /Users/garygauthier/Desktop/DCOM98.EXE

    Regards
    Mike

    Comment by mike — September 18, 2007 @ 09:02

  3. Thanks, Mike.

    It’s now up and running.
    Looks great!

    Comment by Gary — September 27, 2007 @ 05:02

  4. [...] thats the name he’s given on his website so thats what I’m going to call him :p) has provided a nice script that will automatically download and install Corefonts for you. Though it doesnt look to be [...]

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