[Wine] Re: Moving Microsoft Office from XP to Wine

[jorl17]

Jim Hall wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:42 AM, jorl17 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Still, I'd say the best thing to do would just be what you (and I) do: Use
> > PDF. At least until you have a valid reason to claim that you can use "Open
> > Standards".
> > 
> > Back to the topic, I'm out of ideas other than those suggested
> > here.(Thunderbird's idea seems good).
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Jorl17
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> For the symbols to translate correctly the font you use must be exactly the
> same one Win/Word uses. Often, even if the symbols look the same, one or the
> other system will not see them as the same unless they actually are the
> same. So you will probably need to add the font from Win to Linux.
> 
> Jim
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Really? I didn't know that, thanks for the info. To be honest, I never noticed it too -- I've carried PDFs made in OO around with fonts that only I have and they worked just great (pixel per pixel I believe) in both my GNU/Linux and my Windows PDF readers.

Cheers,

Jorl17