You are here

The forum

Font rendering in Word 2010

New topic
Reply
Author Replies
erydit Tuesday 29 October 2019 at 9:08
eryditAnonymous

I have installed Office 2010 using PlayOnLinux. My system: OS: Manjaro 18.1.1, DE: Xfce 4.14

The problem is that fonts looks like in bold if their size is relatively small (16-12 pt for TimesNewRoman) .No matter if i reduce font size in font settings or just reduce the page zoom. And if i continue to reduce the fonts' size (smaller than 12), they looks like the anti-aliasing is off.

Later I noticed that this behaviour is observed only if I start a new empty word file. If i open an existing document, the all fonts looks normal (like in Windows) and smoothed, with no regard to their size.

I found that if the starting script in Word desktop or "Open with.." context menu is:

Exec=/usr/share/playonlinux/playonlinux --run "Microsoft Word 2010" %F then the fonts behave as i described - the are not anti-aliased at small sizes.

But if the starting script is :

Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/stanislav/.PlayOnLinux//wineprefix/Office2010" wine start /ProgIDOpen Word.Document.12 %f then everything is OK. The fonts looks normally smoothed at any size.

The problem with the second script is that it doesnt work when I try to open an empty new document. Word just did not start.

And i dont know why these two scripts leads to different font rendering

Anyway, this doesnt depend on the wine version, fonts lokation, and fontsmoothing winetricks. And this looks like a PlayOnLinux bug.
erydit Tuesday 29 October 2019 at 9:29
eryditAnonymous

I forgot to mention:

Every time when I switch from one icon script to another the PlayOnLinux reconfigures the wine prefix. I dont know why is this happening and what exactly it reconfigures.
Dadu042 Tuesday 29 October 2019 at 9:44
Dadu042

What is your POL version, and the Wine version used ?
erydit Tuesday 29 October 2019 at 10:40
eryditAnonymous

 

What is your POL version, and the Wine version used ?

 

Quote from Dadu042

 POL version is the latest available in manjaro repo - 4.3.4-1.0

The Wine versions I tried: 3.0.2 (the default for MS Office installation script), 4.17, and 4.18. With no visible differences between wine versions.
Dadu042 Saturday 2 November 2019 at 9:29
Dadu042

There is some POL components that may help, install these from 'Options', it's named 'FontsSmooth...'
You are here: Index > PlayOnLinux > Font rendering in Word 2010

This site allows content generated by members, and we promptly remove any content that infringes copyright according to our Terms of Service. To report copyright infringement, please send a notice to dmca-notice@playonlinux.com