Dear Sean,
Part of the Vbox distro includes programs that you run on the Virtual Box
system that allow to properly adjust the video. These are listed as
"VirtualBox Guest Additions", and chapter 4 of the 229 page "Sun xVM
VirtualBox user Manual" (version 2.1.4) is devoted to this topic, should
you have so little real life left that you choose to read this weighty,
but worthy technical tome...
Ah Monday...
Regards,
Flint
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Sean Hurley wrote:
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:45:26 -0400
From: Sean Hurley <[email protected]>
Reply-To: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: MS Office on Vbox
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
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Paul Flint
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