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Remco Haszing
Asked: 2018-08-27 06:07:03 +0800 CST

Missing fonts in Acrobat reader in wine

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I have managed to install Adobe Acrobat Reader (the only "free" PDF editor I could find) in wine. This is working, but a lot of texts are not being rendered.

I have run the following to install it (based on this guide):

winetricks mspatcha
wine path/to/installer.exe

I did fail and retry several times, so I may or may not have selected a 32-bit version.

Anyway, it works, but some fonts are missing. It is usable, but sometimes I really do miss the texts, eg in pop-up messages.

Does anyone know how to fix these fonts?

Acrobat Reader running in wine

wine fonts adobe-reader adobe-acrobat

3 Answers

  1. I just installed the latest version of Acrobat Reader DC (2019) in Wine using this guide by user filozofio here :

    1. install wine and winetricks
    2. execute these commands in a terminal:
      • winetricks atmlib
      • winetricks riched20
      • winetricks wsh57
      • winetricks mspatcha
    3. Get the Windows 7 fonts, especially the sego* fonts.
    4. Copy the windows fonts to a folder in /usr/share/fonts
    5. execute this command in a terminal:
      • sudo fc-cache -vf
    6. Download the Windows version of Adobe Acrobat Reader DC from https://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/
    7. Install it via wine
      • wine /path/to/installer.exe (e.g. wine ~/Downloads/AcroRdrDC1901020064_en_US.exe
    8. At start up, select "always start with protected mode disabled" (not possible in wine)
    9. Accept the license
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  2. To ensure that you have correct links to downloads update WineTricks as recommended on its page.

    wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks

    And then place it in correct location

    sudo cp winetricks $(which winetricks)

    Then try to install all fonts with it:

    winetricks allfonts
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  3. As iwilltry42 says, but his answer contains loads of jargon(I beg my pardon). For me It worked like these:

    1) simply installed Adobe Acrobat from the Ubuntu store.

    2) Downloaded the Windows 7 fonts from https://www.w7df.com/7/download.html

    3) Extracted it and pasted it in /usr/share/fonts(pate the entire extracted folder)

    Bingo !

    Note:- While pasting the file open file manager in super user mode(i.e - sudo nautilus)

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