Benjamin,
Congratulations on finally getting wine to run Word 97. It sounds like it
was a valiant effort and noble experiment, but perhaps not worth pursuing
at this time. I am thining Codeweavers might find documentation of your
efforts interesting, perhaps even helpful in their development.
Dave
On Tuesday 22 May 2001 02:52, thus spake Benjamin Sher:
> Dear friends:
>
> First, my thanks again to all of you who took out time from their busy
> schedules to respond to my Word97/Wine query.
>
> I added all of my Windows True Type fonts to Linux. You do that
> automatically in LM 8.0 (available since LM 7.1 or 7.2) in K,
> Configuration, Other, Drakfont. Just select all of your Windows fonts,
> click OK and, bingo, they are now part of LM 8.0.
>
> I decided to repeat this process (guessing correctly that I had to do
> this again AFTER installing Wine and I was right!). I went back to
> MSWord right afterwards and saw no font error messages (the infamous
> trebuchet font message) during launch this time and found all of my TT
> fonts there, every one of them, even the Cyrillic fonts (I am a Russian
> translator). Amazing.
>
> I did not see any icon issues. Remember that I chose all native dlls,
> where possible and for Window mode: Desktop = 1024 x 768. The perfect
> choice, I think. MS Word appeared in half-size. I then expanded it and
> because of the desktop size, it looked for all the world just like the
> real thing.
>
> Well, I did a little more research at Wine headquarters
> (http://www.winehq.org) under Search: Word97, etc. I found from the
> correspondence that no one has succeeded in getting Word97 to work in
> anything even close to a satisfactory way. I was lucky to be able to use
> my mouse and keyboard and even print preview but no printing, no saving,
> and no other menu entries were really accessible except the one that was
> put there by Wine itself. So, perhaps the man (Jim) from
> codeweavers-wine tech support was right after all.
>
> So, unless Wine makes dramatic progress or someone has the magic key, I
> think I'll just consider this an interesting experiment. Let's hope
> Codeweavers or Wine itself succeed in making it work in time for Wine
> 1.0 or whenever. Until such time, I bid this project my fond adieu.
>
> All my thanks again for your kind help.
>
> Benjamin
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