I bought a used WindowsXP PC that has Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 installed. I would like to move the software to my Wine environment on my Fedora11 desktop before I wipe the Windows disk and install Linux. It did not come with any distribution media. I know the wiki (http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-497f1a295d53dd3444f211df2b13312c7767afa2) says, you have to install them in Wine..., but it also says some applications can be copied if you don't mind tinkering. I intend to tinker. But I'm hoping someone has done this before and can give me a heads-up of any non-obvious files that will need to be copied, and especially of any registry entries that will need to be transported. Does anyone have any tips?
This can't be done for Office there are way too many registry keys and other special dlls it installs. Assuming the license is legal, the best way would probably to retrieve the Office 2003 serial somewhere from the registry or wherever it is stored (search on google how to do this) and then 'somehow' obtain a office2003 CD which is likely legal if your license is really legal.
KenJackson wrote:> I know the wiki (http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-497f1a295d53dd3444f211df2b13312c7767afa2) says, you have to install them in Wine..., but it also says some applications can be copied if you don't mind tinkering.This is true. Even better, a lot of applications do NOT require anything extra to run. But bigger ones usually require something extra, like special DLLs or registry entries that are installed alongside the application. 'Tinkering' could mean that you just copy over everything, try out what works right away, and do a fresh install on anything that doesn't work.
>KenJackson wrote: >> I know the wiki (http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head- >>497f1a295d53dd3444f211df2b13312c7767afa2) says, you have to install them in >>Wine..., but it also says some applications can be copied if you don't mind >> tinkering. > >This is true. Even better, a lot of applications do NOT require anything extra to run. But bigger ones usually require something extra, like special DLLs or registry entries that are installed alongside the application. > >'Tinkering' could mean that you just copy over everything, try out what works right away, and do a fresh install on anything that doesn't work. >Office 2003 and Office 2007 ARE NOT one of the programs that allow 'tinkering'. They have to be installed from installation media to work properly in Wine. James McKenzie
I won't say it's impossible, but in the case of Office, it's more like rebuilding an engine than "tinkering." Office not only installs lots of files in lots of different places, it adds a slew of registry entries. If this is an OEM install, have you checked to see if the install files aren't somewhere on the hard drive, perhaps in a hidden directory or partition? They might not work even if you have them--some OEM installers are designed to only work on the original system--but it's worth a shot.
Still, I'd say the best thing to do would just be what you (and I) do: Use PDF. At least until you have a valid reason to claim that you can use "Open Standards". Back to the topic, I'm out of ideas other than those suggested here.(Thunderbird's idea seems good). Cheers, Jorl17
Jim Hall wrote:> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:42 AM, jorl17 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote: > > > > Still, I'd say the best thing to do would just be what you (and I) do: Use > > PDF. At least until you have a valid reason to claim that you can use "Open > > Standards". > > > > Back to the topic, I'm out of ideas other than those suggested > > here.(Thunderbird's idea seems good). > > > > Cheers, > > > > Jorl17 > > > > > > > > > > For the symbols to translate correctly the font you use must be exactly the > same one Win/Word uses. Often, even if the symbols look the same, one or the > other system will not see them as the same unless they actually are the > same. So you will probably need to add the font from Win to Linux. > > Jim > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: <http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20091104/58f33ac1/attachment.htm>Really? I didn't know that, thanks for the info. To be honest, I never noticed it too -- I've carried PDFs made in OO around with fonts that only I have and they worked just great (pixel per pixel I believe) in both my GNU/Linux and my Windows PDF readers. Cheers, Jorl17
I think it's not possible with the office 2003. And Hi everyone! ;-)
Dotan Cohen wrote:> > That is most certainly not true. PDFs are not graphic (vector or raster) images. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF > >I stand corrected. I assumed they were graphics because they can be edited in GIMP/Photoshop.
dimesio wrote:> > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > > That is most certainly not true. PDFs are not graphic (vector or raster) images. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF > > > > > > > I stand corrected. I assumed they were graphics because they can be edited in GIMP/Photoshop.Yup, how else would you be able to copy text / convert stuff to/from PDFs? Still, you made your point about the fonts. :)