Hi. I'm using wine 20030508 on Linux. I have a set of Microsoft Word documents that I need to convert to RTF and I have found an appropriate converter that will do this for me[1]. Many of the documents use fonts that I do not have access to and in these cases, I would like to default to Helvetica. My config file specifies this via: "Default" = "-adobe-helvetica-" so that is all fine and in order. In fact, when I do convert the documents which use fonts I don't have, Helvetica is selected. Great! Here's my problem: when it selects Helvetica it also selects an illegible size; 2. There is no way I can read the documents. I have tried changing the Resolution in the config file but that didn't do any good. Does anyone know why this is happening? Can I force it to default to 10 or 12? Thanks, Erikk. Footnotes: [1] TXWords, <http://www.textcontrol.com>
Erik Enge wrote:> Hi. > > I'm using wine 20030508 on Linux. I have a set of Microsoft Word > documents that I need to convert to RTF and I have found an appropriate > converter that will do this for me[1]. > > Many of the documents use fonts that I do not have access to and in > these cases, I would like to default to Helvetica. My config file > specifies this via: > > "Default" = "-adobe-helvetica-" > > so that is all fine and in order. In fact, when I do convert the > documents which use fonts I don't have, Helvetica is selected. Great! > > Here's my problem: when it selects Helvetica it also selects an > illegible size; 2. There is no way I can read the documents. I have > tried changing the Resolution in the config file but that didn't do any > good.I have occasionally vaguely noticed that poor choices are sometimes made when trying to select a font size for fonts with fixed sizes, such as Helvetica (at least I assume you don't have a TrueType version of Helvitica). Probably a better solution is to install a few TrueType fonts and use those as the default. Quite a few good ones (I like Verdana as a default) are available here: http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
Duane Clark <dclark@akamail.com> writes:> Probably a better solution is to install a few TrueType fonts and use > those as the default.Thanks, that seems to have worked. Is this a bug in wine or is it one of those very-hard-to-solve problems? I could submit a bugreport. Erik.