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Hi,
Please don't be mad at me, but I installed MS Office 2007 on mz Arch laptop (with wine, of course).
The problem is that I have some horrible font rendering in office. I use the infinality packages, have really good looking font rendering in my desktop and applications, moderately nice rendering in wine (including Office menus, winecfg, etc), but the arial, calibri, etc windows fonts look really bad. The same fonts are looking good in LO Writer.
But I have to use MS Office and windows fonts, beacuse I need to give the documents I create to other people, and I cannot risk to create them with LO and MS Office open them misaligned, for example.
Anyway, can somebody help me fix font rendering for MS Office 2007?
Thank you!
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I have similar problem. After installing lib32-freetype2-infinality, Windows program looks a bit better, but not very good.
Last edited by triplc (2012-05-10 06:24:48)
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I'm using MSO2007, too without any problems.
Get completely rid of it and install it with winetricks. This will fix some things like not being able to start Powerpoint.
Also here is a copy of my fonts and DLLs which go inside /system32 and /font in your wine folder.
http://www.4shared.com/file/6IfjFg0I/fonts__dlls.html
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blackout23, are those "fonts and .dlls" redistributable? You may be violating the license if they aren't. Not to nit-pick but consider that all of GNU/Linux as a whole is enabled by the same copyright/licenses as proprietary software..
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They're all downloadable from microsoft.com via winetricks.
Last edited by blackout23 (2012-05-10 15:04:08)
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Right on, I'll go be pedantic somewhere else now..
Edit:I know an AUR package or two runs afoul of licensing for some Microsoft fonts as they are downloaded and extracted from a "powerpoint viewing" program. The license for that one says they can only be used for the viewing program. So that AUR package, its name escapes me now, is technically in violation of the license. So even if the fonts come straight from Microsoft the license for their use has to be examined too. It may be legal for you to download the fonts yourself and for you to tell someone else where to download them, but, it may be a violation of the license or copyright for you to download them and then give a copy to someone else.
Last edited by headkase (2012-05-10 15:09:51)
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