Ubuntu
wine1.6 package

use liberation or Croscore fonts instead of msttcorefonts

Bug #1015857 reported by shawnlandden
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wine1.6 (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

There is no need to recommend the non-free ms core fonts for the web. There exists the size-compatible liberation and Croscore fonts. Incidentally Croscore are owned by monotype, same company that wrote the ms core fonts. Google's Chrome OS uses them for example

http://lwn.net/Articles/502371/

The free fonts, which are compatible, should be used in place of non-free fonts.

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Tae-Wong SEO (seotaewong40) wrote :

The title has to be msttcorefonts, not mstcoreconts.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in wine (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)
summary: - use liberation or Croscore fonts instead os mstcoreconts
+ use liberation or Croscore fonts instead os msttcorefonts
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Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote : Re: use liberation or Croscore fonts instead os msttcorefonts

msttcorefonts is recommended mostly because of Tahoma, which there doesn't seem to be a croscore version of either.

It may be worth aliasing for Times New Roman and Courier. Arial is already handled by a liberation font I believe.

affects: wine (Ubuntu) → wine1.6 (Ubuntu)
summary: - use liberation or Croscore fonts instead os msttcorefonts
+ use liberation or Croscore fonts instead of msttcorefonts
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Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote :

Actually nevermind about Tahoma, Tahoma isn't part of ttf-mscorefonts-installer either.

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