Re: E-tax and Wine

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From: James C
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:55

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On 16/07/08 01:09, Will Kemp wrote:
> Will Kemp wrote:
>> James C wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> I tried etax 2008 on Wine 0.9.46 (default Wine installed on Ubuntu 
>>>> 7.10).  It installed, but the text was almost unreadably blocky and 
>>>> cropped, and it stopped functioning not long after I entered a few 
>>>> basic personal details.
>>> [...]
>>> I just tried etax 2008 with Wine 1.0 (latest Wine available for 
>>> Ubuntu 7.10) and it wasn't any better than with Wine 0.9.46, for the 
>>> same reasons.
>>
>> Strange! It works fine in Wine 1.0 under Fedora 9.
>>
>> Gnome or KDE? I use Gnome.

Gnome 2.20.1.

> Oh, and i've got windows fonts installed...

Me too -- at least some of them (Verdana, Georgia, Courier New, ...).
Maybe etax needs one I don't have...?

I'm just using the default Wine installs on Ubuntu, not tinkering with 
the config.  Hardly any Windows programs I have tried have worked.

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