Re: Chinese MS-Office + Wine

All my clients send me regularly .doc files and I have
to edit and work with them. Clients very often by
definition are not part of my company.

It's not an easy scenario


--- Richard Ford <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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