Upside down text characters and Wine -- SOLVED but not quite

[Clay Weber]

On Thursday, November 25, 2010 07:31:28 pm Jerry Lapham wrote:
> On Thursday, November 25, 2010 06:58:27 pm Jerry Lapham wrote:
> > On Tuesday, November 23, 2010 03:20:53 pm Steve Morris wrote:
> > > On 23/11/10 18:45, Jerry Lapham wrote:
> > > > On Monday, November 22, 2010 02:41:50 pm Steve Morris wrote:
> > > >> On 22/11/10 12:13, Jerry Lapham wrote:
> > > >>> I suspect the Wine update to 1.2 may have happened in the last
> > > >>> month and caused the problem.  I'd like to either back up to the
> > > >>> previous Wine version or forward to a new version without the
> > > >>> problem but I don't know how.
> > 
> > That was it!  I finally tried what I should have done in the first place
> > -- I opened Synaptic and found that both Wine 1.2 and Wine 1.0 are
> > available, so I removed 1.2 and installed 1.0.  Voila, right side up
> > printing.
> 
> Whoa, there, wait a minute!
> 
> DeScribe prints right side up in Wine 1.0 but Quicken 2008 won't run. 
> Since I use Quicken more often than DeScribe, I had to go back to Wine
> 1.2.  But at least I confirmed that Wine 1.2 is the problem.
> 
> 	-Jerry

I am not sure if it will help, but you can set wine to run as specific Windows 
versions. Perhaps with the old word processor, you might want to try running 
it with Win95 compatibility. 

Run wincfg and go to the Applications tab, select Add Application and browse 
to DeScribe's exe. Then select the windows version you want. Win 95 would be a 
good guess for the app, as that's about when that application was available.

You can also set the system default to whichever Win version works best for 
you overall, I believe Win XP is the default in wine 1.2, not sure which 
version is set as default for 1.0, but I would guess it is the same. Worth a 
try.

I also would recommend trying out KMyMoney as something to consider and try as 
a replacement for Quicken.

Clay