wine users - Apr 2001 - MS Office with WINE

Hi, there

I am a studying possibility of using wine in professional environment.
I installed codeweavers wine recently with success. But I fear the
answer is not an evident YES... With notepad, I have not acheived any
printing yet.

First goal would be running MS Office for win 98, especially Excel
(another vintage for better emulation if necessary).

What is your opinion ?

More precisely, what problems are there in MS Office apps emulation ? Is
there any kind of technical  synthesis available on the subject ?

Apart from that, is there any idea of the predictible date for a
professional usable release  ?

Thank you in advance for help.

Yours.

Philippe BRIERE

> First goal would be running MS Office for win 98, especially Excel
> (another vintage for better emulation if necessary).
>
> What is your opinion ?
I had office running under codeweaver's wine not too long ago. I didn't
try
printing but the only problem I recall was that it complained about a
missing Tahoma font. I installed my TTF fonts from windows into Linux and
things worked okay. I didn't do any extensive testing though.

On Tue, 03 Apr 2001 10:37:41 +0200, philippe briere <briere@ensta.fr>
wrote:
>Hi, there
>
>I am a studying possibility of using wine in professional environment.
>I installed codeweavers wine recently with success. But I fear the
>answer is not an evident YES... With notepad, I have not acheived any
>printing yet.
>
>First goal would be running MS Office for win 98, especially Excel
>(another vintage for better emulation if necessary).
>
>What is your opinion ?
Read the README.
>More precisely, what problems are there in MS Office apps emulation ? Is
>there any kind of technical  synthesis available on the subject ?
I don't know of any. 
>Apart from that, is there any idea of the predictible date for a
>professional usable release  ?
No.
In your place I'd investigate also Vmware or (better IMO)
replacing MsOffice by StarOffice.

Gerard

Pete Philips a ?crit :
> philippe briere wrote:
>
> >
> > Could  you tell me precisely what you did for the Tahoma ?
>
> I found this page useful:
>
> http://www.pa.msu.edu/services/computing/redhat/truetype.html
>
> Pete.
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Thanx. My Linux is Mdk, but I guess it may work the same.

Phil

Dmitry Timoshkov a ?crit :
> "philippe briere" <briere@ensta.fr> wrote:
>
> > What does IMO means ?
>
> You can try to use "Acronym and abbreviation list" at
> http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/acro.html
> though I had never any success to add some missing acronyms to it.
>
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Wonderfull.
So IMO = In My Opinion [Net jargon]

Learning every day.

Thanx
Phil