Ubuntu – 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

Best Answer

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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