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

[Jerry Lapham]

On Thursday, November 25, 2010 08:08:47 pm Clay Weber wrote:

> 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.

Tried Win95 -doesn't make any difference.  DeScribe runs fine on the default XP, 
it just "prints" upside down characters.
> 
> I also would recommend trying out KMyMoney as something to consider and try
> as a replacement for Quicken.

Just downloaded it.  Looks like a lot of relearning.

	-Jerry
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