Equations in Word 2007

Aleksey_R · Post by **Aleksey_R** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 7:48 am

Greetings, gentlemen.

When I open a doc-file with some formulas (the file was created on windows machine), sometimes they are rendered a bit wrong. After opening them in equation editor they are rendered OK. After saving the doc-file anything is OK. But when the changed file is opened on MS Word 2007 on Windows machine, the formulas which were opened in Equation Editor on wine Word, are rendered wrong! And I have to open them in Equation Editor and save document to see them in right way.

When the amount of formulas in document is big, this things starts to annoy. Also, this rendering problems make conversion to pdf more difficult: I need to open formulas in Equation Editor before conversion to PDF.

Has anyone the same problem?

OS: OpenSuse 11.4 64 bit
Wine: 1.3.31, win32 wine prefix
MS Office: 2007 Enterprise SP2

Best regards, Aleksey.

Post by **dimesio** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 8:12 am

Aleksey_R wrote: Has anyone the same problem?

There's an open bug about the positioning of glyphs in embedded equations in Word 2003, but I haven't seen anything reported for Word 2007. http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21952

When you say "equation editor," do you mean the old equation editor that you have to get to via Insert=>Object=>Microsoft Equation 3.0, or do you mean the equation toolbar that appears when you click Insert=>Equation?
If the latter, do you have an override set for usp10.dll?

Aleksey_R · Post by **Aleksey_R** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 8:49 am

I mean old equation editor. Maybe, Word 2007 has similar problems...

Post by **dimesio** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 12:08 pm

Aleksey_R wrote:I mean old equation editor. Maybe, Word 2007 has similar problems...

It could be the same bug. Try native gdiplus. You will have to install it with winetricks or copy the file from a Windows install, as Office 2007 doesn't install its own gdiplus, unlike Office 2003.

Aleksey_R · Post by **Aleksey_R** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 6:25 pm

I've installed gdiplus via winetricks. That didn't help, the behavior is the same

Post by **dimesio** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 7:43 pm

Aleksey_R wrote:I've installed gdiplus via winetricks. That didn't help, the behavior is the same

File a bug. Attach a document that demonstrates the problem, and screenshots of how it looks in Windows and in Wine.

Aleksey_R · Post by **Aleksey_R** » Sat Nov 05, 2011 2:54 am

Thanks for advice, I've submitted bug 28993.

Equations in Word 2007

Equations in Word 2007

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