WineHQ Bugzilla – Bug 16121 – Word 2003/2007 Bold Face Type Bug

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Last modified: 2013-11-22 12:50:34 UTC

Word 2003/2007 Bold Face Type Bug

Bug 16121 - Word 2003/2007 Bold Face Type Bug


Summary:	Word 2003/2007 Bold Face Type Bug

Status:	CLOSED FIXED

AppDB:	Show Apps affected by this bug
Product:	Wine
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	-unknown
Version:	1.1.8
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	P2 minor
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Mr. Bugs

URL:	http://www.abiword.com/
Keywords:	download, source

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Blocks:
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Reported:	2008-11-19 10:29 UTC by Matt Morse
Modified:	2013-11-22 12:50 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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+font trace, selecting Century and bold (129.68 KB, application/x-bzip) 2009-06-04 00:30 UTC, Rosanne DiMesio	Details
Side by side screenshots of the same document in Wine and in Windows XP (34.28 KB, image/png) 2013-01-02 11:37 UTC, Rosanne DiMesio	Details
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Description Matt Morse 2008-11-19 10:29:30 UTC

Word 2003 in Wine doesn't show bold or face type properly when using Times New Roman font.  It just shows it like regular type but with the 'bold' toolbar button depressed on the formatting toolbar.  When I switched my document to Arial Narrow font this problem seemed to disappear.  It may just be an issue with this font only.  It could also be my video card playing tricks on me as well but I'm not sure.  Here are my hardware and software specs:

OS:  Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron
Wine version 1.1.8
Hardware:  HP Pavilion dv600t laptop, NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 graphics card, Intel Core 2 Duo T5600 1.8ghz cpu, Intel 845GM chipset

Comment 1 Dmitry Timoshkov 2008-11-19 11:12:19 UTC

http://bugs.winehq.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#bug_severity

Comment 2 Rosanne DiMesio 2008-11-19 16:00:15 UTC

Bold works fine for me in Word 2003 for Times New Roman and all other fonts. Wine 1.1.8, openSUSE 10.3.

Comment 3 Austin English 2009-05-29 12:19:41 UTC

Is this still an issue in current (1.1.22 or newer) wine?

Comment 4 David Zaragoza 2009-06-03 12:52:50 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> Is this still an issue in current (1.1.22 or newer) wine?

Yes this still happens in wine 1.1.22, using Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit, but not for the times new roman font, it happens with other fonts, like century, alHor, AlBattar, Vivaldi, etc.

Comment 5 Rosanne DiMesio 2009-06-03 18:38:48 UTC

I'm seeing it now too in 1.1.22 for some fonts. 

Based on the dozen or so fonts I checked, it seems to affect only fonts that don't have a separate file for the bold version. In Windows, Office apps can still bold these fonts.

This also affects Word 2007, Powerpoint 2003 & 2007, and Excel 2003 & 2007.

Comment 6 Rosanne DiMesio 2009-06-04 00:30:24 UTC

Created attachment 21535 [details]
+font trace, selecting Century and bold

I'm uploading a +font trace from starting Word 2003, selecting Century from the font list, selecting bold, and typing a few words. (Century is one of the fonts Office 2003 installs itself.) 

Since bold was working for me when this bug was first filed, I tried running a regression test back to 1.1.7, but the bisects all came up bad. I'm now using openSUSE 11.1, with freetype2 2.3.7, so I can't reproduce the same conditions.  

The problem with bold is not limited to the way the affected fonts display onscreen; printed documents do not show the bolding, either. However, when I saved a document in Word 2003 and then opened it in native Open Office, the font did correctly display as bold. 

I also tested Abiword for Windows, and found that it has the same problem.

Comment 7 Rosanne DiMesio 2009-06-04 07:32:45 UTC

Comment 8 Rosanne DiMesio 2010-01-09 13:56:57 UTC

Still present in 1.1.36.

Comment 9 leighman 2010-02-01 11:40:26 UTC

I too have noticed this in Word 2007.
I noticed it when using the font Doulos SIL (installed from Ubuntu repos).  Haven't checked with other fonts.
Ubuntu 9.10, Wine 1.1.37.

Comment 10 Rosanne DiMesio 2010-11-27 11:41:43 UTC

Century now does bold properly in 1.3.8, but there are other fonts that still don't. Deja Vu Sans is one that doesn't display or print bold in Word 2003/2007, though if I save the file and open it in native Open Office, the bolding is there.

Comment 11 Rosanne DiMesio 2012-02-04 21:46:31 UTC

Still an issue in 1.4-rc2.

Comment 12 Ronak 2013-01-02 09:50:26 UTC

Seems to work fine as of 1.5.20. Confirm?

R

Comment 13 Rosanne DiMesio 2013-01-02 11:35:07 UTC

(In reply to comment #12)
> Seems to work fine as of 1.5.20. Confirm?
> 

No.

I tested several fonts that are installed by Office 2007 itself: Algerian, Baskerville Old Face, Brushscript MT, Century, Gigi, Harrington, and Informal Roman. The do not display or print as bold when running in Wine, but do when the same document is opened in Word 2007 running in XP under VMPlayer on the same machine.

Comment 14 Rosanne DiMesio 2013-01-02 11:37:58 UTC

Created attachment 43057 [details]
Side by side screenshots of the same document in Wine and in Windows XP

Attaching a file with side-by-side screenshots of the same document in Word 2007 in Wine and in Windows XP.

Comment 15 Sagawa 2013-11-11 04:20:02 UTC

Could you test again with wine 1.7.5 or later?
As of 1.7.5, we have improved support for simulated bold fonts.

Comment 16 Rosanne DiMesio 2013-11-11 07:50:37 UTC

I retested all the fonts mentioned in comment 13, and bolding works for all of them. Tested in 1.7.6.

Marking fixed.

Comment 17 Alexandre Julliard 2013-11-22 12:50:34 UTC

Closing bugs fixed in 1.7.7.