Howdie, On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 01:40:30PM -0400, Sean Hurley wrote: > 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).
I don't know anything about VirtualBox or Office, but this sounds like a DPI issue. It may be something you can fix by tweaking the configured monitor or related settings. Thanks, Forest -- Forest Bond http://www.alittletooquiet.net http://www.pytagsfs.org
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