Re: Chinese MS-Office + Wine

People should really send files out using PDF.  That is what we do.

"Portable"

Even if you open a word doc in another word installation, often
formatting errors occur.  For instance, different page and paper setups,
available fonts, etc.....  I always had documents stuff up at uni when
going to print.  So I ended up converting all files to postscript using
the standard HP Laser Jet Driver and set to PCL.  Then I could print all
documents everywhere without fear of stuff ups.  Of course this is back
in 95 and predates the widespread existance of PDF.

Peoples computing habbits around the world, really are poor.  Should I
mention I love U virus...?  ;-)

RF.



On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 14:26, Grzegorz Jakacki wrote:
> --- Graham Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Grzegorz,
> > 
> > Wine is not Crossover.
> 
> Right, but what is the real difference? I am under impression
> (after reading some posts here and there) that Crossover is just 
> easier to set up, but the core engine is the same. 
> 
> > MS word will work more or less flawlessly under crossover.
> > You download a trial version if you want to convince yourself.  (Of
> > course, if you become convinced, there is a licence fee).  The 
> > small empty squares suggests a lack of unicode support. (The 
> > installer may not have it). I get a similar effect in OOo if 
> > I have not selected a Chinese font when typing Chinese.  
> > Are you loading Chinese office?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > We use MS word and OOo in the office.  While there are still issues
> > they a fewer since the advent of OOo 1.1.  Many of the issues can 
> > be solved fairly readily.  If you have not tried  the latest 
> > version, I suggest it might be worth a retry.
> > We use the English version of OOo 1.1 with RH9 in Chinese.  
> > Seems to work quite well.
> 
> I am running OpenOffice-1.1.0, so AFAIK this is the latest stable
> release. I agree that OO is making constant progress, however
> we still have issues with opening Word documents sent to us, and 
> this is the functionality we need most. 
> 
> Thanks
> Grzegorz
> 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > At 01:19 PM 5/03/2004 +0800, you wrote:
> > 
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >BACKGROUND: we use Solaris boxes as desktops, and Linux boxes
> > remotely.
> > >Both Solaris and Linux boxes have Chinese language support. Recently
> > we
> > >tried to install Wine (ver. 20040121) on a remote Linux box. Wine's
> > >NOTEPAD.EXE works perfectly, with Chinese fonts in menus. However,
> > >we face a problem with MS-Office 2000:
> > >
> > >PROBLEM: SETUP.EXE starts and displays a short note in Chinese (the
> > same
> > >font as in NODEPAD.EXE, so it looks like it is not just showing a
> > bitmap),
> > >however on subsequent screens the font is broken (i.e. all
> > characters show
> > >up as small empty squares).
> > >
> > >Has anybody have more luck with similar install? Any debugging tips?
> > >
> > >I have read that Crossover supports Chinese MS-Office 2000, so I
> > guess
> > >there should be a way to force Wine to do it too.
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >Grzegorz
> > >
> > >PS: I am aware of OpenOffice and I think it is great, but it happens
> > to
> > >     screw documents authored under MSWord :-(
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Graham Brown
> > 
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