Hi all - after happily using Ubuntu at home for a couple of years, I've decided to make the transition to use it on my work machines as well. I do need XP around in some form so that I can collaborate seamlessly with people using Office 2007, and I'd prefer to run Office in Virtualbox rather than keeping a separate Windows partition that I'd have to boot into every time I need to run Office. One problem, though, is that Powerpoint documents look slightly different when I open them in Virtualbox than they do when I open them in "normal" Windows or even on a Mac. Specifically, the fonts seem to be of an ever-so-slightly different size so that documents with complicated formatting (e.g., multiple text boxes), end up with text from one section overlapping text from another section. This happens even when all fonts are embedded in the Powerpoint file, and again, only happens under Virtualbox (the files look identical on various other Windows and Mac machines with different configurations).
Has anyone run into a similar issue before, or do have any ideas for how to rectify the situation? At this point this issue is the only thing keeping me from deleting my Windows partition entirely, and I'm looking forward to the happy day when I can finally push that big red button... -Sean
