Excessive letter-spacing in firefox3 under wine

[Adam Vandemore]

Tore Lund wrote:
> Subject line says it all - large gaps between all letters.  Here is a
> screenshot: http://softblur.com/misc/spacing.jpg.
>
> I suppose there are others who run firefox3 under wine on 7.1-RELEASE
> with no problems, so can anyone think of what's wrong?  I have imported
> fonts from my Windows 2000 installation, and I am using the same profile
> that works well with native FreeBSD firefox and firefox on Windows 2000.
> I believe this did not happen with firefox2.  Grateful for any hint.
>
> (Actually, I only use wine in order to get flash9, so if anyone could
> help me solve this problem instead, that's even better.  I have tried
> the available recipes with no success - my firefox3 just freezes.)
>   
The rendering stuff is due to the font wine/firefox is using.  I do have 
ff3 running with similar issues, but I'm sure there's some sort of 
documentation available to fix it.  You're going to want an anti-aliased 
font, and probably an MS one for greatest compatibility.  I've also got 
flash 10 installed on it and the video is terrible.  Hopefully flash 9 
works better for you.

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