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wingdings alternative

Asked by dino99

hi,

for my needs i have to run wine to get an app working. As this prog have to display some special symbols (require wingdings when run on Windows), i've searched an ubuntu alternative font and found ttf-opensymbol.

Synaptic says:
******* This font contains symbols (like fonts as Wingdings(tm)), .....

so i've installed ttf-opensymbol (on maverick i386), rebooted several times since installation, but wine ignore this installation. So my question is : how to add ttf-opensymbol inside wine (windows/fonts) or making it able to detect the maverick fonts ?

( need to display correctly "arrows" & so on instead of gibberish)

Thanks for your help, and best whishes for the new year coming :)

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Best Christian Dannie Storgaard (cybolic) said : 		#1

Try running the following command in a terminal:

cp /usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice/opens___.ttf ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts/webdings.ttf

and see if that works.

If not, look for winetricks in the Software Centre, it has methods for installing often used fonts.

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dino99 (9d9) said : 		#2

Thanks for the opens__.ttf path,
 but that wingdings alternative is not related to webdings (different font), so i'm going to add it into /windows/Fonts/ and not override webdings.ttf.

Best wishes for the coming year.

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dino99 (9d9) said : 		#3

Thanks Christian Dannie Storgaard, that solved my question.