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Article #1074Re: E-tax and Wine
From: Will Kemp
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:31
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:31
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James C wrote: > 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...? That's weird then - it must be some difference between ubuntu and fedora, but i can't imagine what... > I'm just using the default Wine installs on Ubuntu, not tinkering with > the config. Hardly any Windows programs I have tried have worked. I'm using the default wine setup on fedora - and i've been astonished at how many windows apps work with it now. -- http://SnapAndScribble.com
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