Ok, now that I took a side-by-side look at the screenshots I made to post here, it's clear that the fonts are different in the file when it's opened in Vbox than they are when it's opened on other machines. So for some reason it's not using the embedded fonts. That narrows down the problem a little, and it doesn't seem like a virtualization issue -- I'm guessing I'll be able to fix it by changing some setting in Powerpoint.
Thanks everyone for your input. -Sean On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Stan Brinkerhoff <[email protected]> wrote: > Vbox should be pixel perfect... Can you send along screenshots?? > > Stan > > On Apr 18, 2009, at 2:12 PM, Forest Bond <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >
