My experience with fonts in Word and in Writer is that when the font called for by the document has not been installed the program substitutes another font but keeps the name of the first. I have found it frustrating not to know what font is actually being used. The only remedy I have discovered is to install the font called for. And in the case of Times/Times New Roman they are two, not one and the same. The font in the screen shot appeared to be Arial or some other Helvetica type.
I looked for fonts in VBox just now and could find them only at C:\Windows\Fonts. I haven't done anything with fonts in VBox; so this is just what the installation of the XP guest did. And, curiously, installing OpenOffice.org 3 did not appear to add any fonts--at least none show up in Writer's list. Warner Warner White 12 Harbor Watch Road Burlington VT 05401 H: 802-863-0182 C: 802-318-0956 www.warnerwhite.org ________________________________ From: Sean Hurley <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 10:23:59 PM Subject: Re: MS Office on Vbox Huh, well this is odd. According to Powerpoint (under Vbox), the fonts are the same as they are in regular Windows. Check out the attached screenshot, though -- Powerpoint says the font is Times, but it's clearly not. Interestingly, it *does* appear to be the same font that Ubuntu uses by default (looks like what I see in Gmail, for example). Also, when I look at the fonts available in Open Office, many of them are identical and appear to be the same as the one that Powerpoint is using. So I seem to be having some sort of font issue in Ubuntu, though I have no idea why that would have any effect on Virtualbox... On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Sean Hurley <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >
