Re: Arial looks different in Win7 and Wine

[Nikolay Sivov]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 4:17 PM serando <serando@sunrise.ch> wrote:

> Thank you.
>
> I have tried hard to find this false Arial.
>
> ... And I have found it.
>
> It's Wine Arial. Please have a look at the attachment.
>
> This is very strange. I was expecting, that Wine Arial looks the same
> like Windows Arial.


> Very strange.
>

It is basically Liberation Sans with modified name entries. Its purpose is
not to match original visually,
but to provide compatible enough metrics and matching name. Some
applications need an exact name match here.

Anyway, it has nothing to do with freetype.


>
>
> Am 20.08.20 um 06:59 schrieb Werner LEMBERG:
> >> I have installed Microsoft Word 2010 in Wine (Linux) and Windows 7.
> >>
> >> Why does the font Arial look different in wine than in Windows 7?
> >> Best method to see this, is to look at the number "5"in the picture
> >> in the attachment.
> >>
> >> My expectation was, that Arial looks the same in Wine like in
> >> Windows 7.
> > As already mentioned, these are two different fonts!  Look at the
> > shape of the 'Q' and '1' glyphs.
> >
> >
> >     Werner
>
>