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#1 2008-07-08 20:18:36

skottish
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WINE, MS Office 2003, and ugly fonts

I thought that there was a thread floating around about this, but I couldn't seem to find it...

I need to learn Access in a hurry, so I installed MS Office 2003 on my 64 bit workstation. Everything seems to working alright, but the fonts look like crap. Does anyone have any advice?

--EDIT--

before anyone asks, this is my entire 32 bit set up. It will run WINE, Skype, Flash through nspluginwrapper, and Lightscribe:

lib32-alsa-lib 1.0.16-1
lib32-atk 1.22.0-1
lib32-cairo 1.6.4-1.1
lib32-e2fsprogs 1.40.8-1
lib32-expat 2.0.1-1.1
lib32-fontconfig 2.6.0-2
lib32-freetype2 2.3.7-1
lib32-gcc-libs 4.3.1-1
lib32-glib2 2.16.4-1
lib32-glibc 2.8-2
lib32-gnutls 2.0.4-2
lib32-gtk2 2.12.11-1
lib32-libcups 1.3.7-1
lib32-libdrm 2.3.0-1
lib32-libgcrypt 1.4.1-1
lib32-libgpg-error 1.6-1.1
lib32-libice 1.0.4-1
lib32-libjpeg 6b-4
lib32-libpng 1.2.29-1
lib32-libsm 1.1.0-1
lib32-libstdc++5 3.3.6-3
lib32-libtasn1 1.4-1
lib32-libtiff 3.8.2-3
lib32-libx11 1.1.4-2
lib32-libxau 1.0.3-1
lib32-libxcb 1.1-1
lib32-libxcomposite 0.4.0-1
lib32-libxcursor 1.1.9-1
lib32-libxdamage 1.1.1-1.1
lib32-libxdmcp 1.0.2-1
lib32-libxext 1.0.4-1
lib32-libxfixes 4.0.3-1
lib32-libxft 2.1.13-1
lib32-libxi 1.1.3-1
lib32-libxinerama 1.0.3-1
lib32-libxml2 2.6.32-1
lib32-libxmu 1.0.4-1
lib32-libxrandr 1.2.3-1
lib32-libxrender 0.9.4-1
lib32-libxslt 1.1.24-1
lib32-libxss 1.1.1-1
lib32-libxt 1.0.5-1
lib32-libxv 1.0.3-1
lib32-libxxf86vm 1.0.2-1
lib32-lzo2 2.02-3.1
lib32-mesa 7.0.3-2
lib32-ncurses 5.6-6.1
lib32-nvidia-utils 173.14.09-1
lib32-opencdk 0.6.6-1.1
lib32-pango 1.20.5-1
lib32-pcre 7.7-1
lib32-pixman 0.10.0-1
lib32-readline 5.2-7
lib32-zlib 1.2.3-4.1

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#2 2008-07-08 21:55:35

N30N
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Re: WINE, MS Office 2003, and ugly fonts

I've never used M$ Office in wine but I'd try installing the ttf-ms-fonts package. If that doesn't do the job, install corefonts using winetricks.

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#3 2008-07-09 12:53:22

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Re: WINE, MS Office 2003, and ugly fonts

Thanks N30N.

I have the ttf-ms-fonts installed and Office can find them fine. Winetricks isn't helping because the fonts it want are already here. I can live with crappy fonts seeing that this is only to learn. The fact that I even need Office is bothersome....

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#4 2008-07-09 19:02:04

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Re: WINE, MS Office 2003, and ugly fonts

skottish wrote:

isn't helping because the fonts it want are already here.

Oh, your after some font anti-aliasing? If so you could pick non M$ fonts in winecfg>Desktop Integration and probably need to change some in M$ Office preferences aswell.

winenotepadsg0.png


skottish wrote:

The fact that I even need Office is bothersome....

I can imagine. wink

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#5 2008-07-10 18:45:07

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Re: WINE, MS Office 2003, and ugly fonts

Well unless someone here has some tricks, Access 2003 doesn't function under WINE in the first place. Either it just crashes when trying to create any new project, or with imm32.dll and MSCTF.dll installed, it just kind of sits there for a while then blows up. Either way, it doesn't work.

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#6 2008-07-11 01:08:00

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Re: WINE, MS Office 2003, and ugly fonts

skottish wrote:

Access 2003 doesn't function under WINE in the first place.

I was going to suggest that maybe CrossOver would be worth the investment, but it appears even it only supports Access v9.0/2000. hmm

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#7 2008-07-11 14:58:53

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Re: WINE, MS Office 2003, and ugly fonts

Thanks N30N,

It's proof of concept anyway. They use Access, I'll show them Ruby on Rails. I may not get the job, but hell, I'll get a feel for Ruby on Rails. Seems pretty cool to me!

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#8 2008-07-11 17:48:58

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Re: WINE, MS Office 2003, and ugly fonts

skottish wrote:

It's proof of concept anyway. They use Access

If you've been supplied a copy of the Access database you can use Kexi to convert it to a better preforming and more open friendly format (like MySQL).

skottish wrote:

I'll show them Ruby on Rails. I may not get the job, but hell, I'll get a feel for Ruby on Rails. Seems pretty cool to me!

Yeah?… I'm more of a Django guy myself. wink

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#9 2008-07-12 18:07:31

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Re: WINE, MS Office 2003, and ugly fonts

Forgive me but I am about to hijack you.

Is there a way to have AA on winecfg itself?

winecfglw2.png


I need real, proper pen and paper for this.

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