MS Office 2010 under Wine -- very slow print processing

[Rainer Rohde]

This seems to be a regression, as this wasn't a problem until recently.

When printing a document (16 pages), MS Word on Wine takes a rather long time for every page to be processed. About 30 seconds per page. The screen goes dark grey in intervals, as if the application stopped responding.

Once all the pages are processed, the printing itself is rather swift, with no delay between pages.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: wine 1.4.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-16.25-generic 3.5.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 2 11:30:42 2012
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: wine1.4
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Rainer Rohde (rainer-rohde)]

This issue still persists. Printing processing is painfully slow. I wouldn't use MS Office if I didn't have to at work, as Libre Office doesn't even open the docs I am working with. At least I don't have to resort to Win7...

So, is anybody looking at this at all?

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)]

Hi Rainer Rohde,

Could you test if print processing in MS Office 2010 still slow with latest wine 1.6 release? You can install latest wine from official Ubuntu-Wine repo (PPA):

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine/+archive/ppa

Do not forget to remove all wine1.4 related packages before wine1.6 installation.

[Rainer Rohde (rainer-rohde)]

Thanks for your response, Mantas.

I am using Crossover by Codeweavers, and I don't even have Wine installed.

I can try to replicate this with using "PlayOnLinux" instead, which will install Wine. Now, when trying to install the new wine1.6, I get the following:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 wine1.6 : Depends: wine1.6-amd64 (= 1.6-0ubuntu1~ppa1) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: wine1.6-i386 (= 1.6-0ubuntu1~ppa1)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

When trying to install the 64bit version of Wine, I get this:
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 wine1.6-amd64 : Depends: libgphoto2-port0 (>= 2.4.10.1) but it is not installable
                 Depends: wine1.6:any (= 1.6-0ubuntu1~ppa1)
                 Recommends: libcapi20-3 but it is not going to be installed
                 Recommends: libosmesa6 but it is not going to be installed
                 Recommends: libtiff4 but it is not going to be installed
                 Recommends: unixodbc
                 Recommends: wine-gecko2.21 but it is not going to be installed
                 Recommends: wine-mono0.0.8 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Any advice?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.