Tag Archives: office

PDF printer in Wine applications

Posted on September 4, 2012 by gastarbeiten

I’m using MS Office under Wine once in a while. As I work a lot with PDF files I constantly miss the option to quickly save/print a PDF version of a Doc(x) file without the need for additional software. You … Continue reading →

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LaTex via HTML to Word using tex4ht/htlatex

Posted on August 29, 2012 by gastarbeiten

I write my thesis in LaTex using Kile. It is great and in comparison to using either WYSIWYG office suite, I actually have fun writing. Kile is by far the best LaTeX editor for my needs, although Texmaker gets pretty … Continue reading →

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Powerpoint 2007 in Ubuntu 12.04 (Wine)

Posted on July 10, 2012 by gastarbeiten

MS Office 2007 installs just fine under Ubuntu 12.04 using wine 1.4. However Powerpoint will fail to start until you tweak wine a little. Go to Applications > Wine > Configure Wine > Libraries. In “New override for library” type: “riched20.dll”, … Continue reading →

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