Font rendering is very important for Word documents. Fortunately CrossOver provides
top notch font quality. In this screenshot you can see how a document would look
with three types of font handling.
On the left you see what the document would look like with the
standard X11 fonts typically used by X applications. Problems are numerous:
fonts are gettting substituted, they are not anti-aliased, and they don't
have exactly the right size which changes the document layout. Note that the
layout had to be tweaked significantly to make the comparison possible.
In the center you see what the same document would look like in an application
using the regular FreeType library with no hinting support as shipped by most Linux
distributions. This already shows great progress: fonts are anti-aliased and the title
uses the right font because Word installed it and CrossOver picked it up automatically.
Also the text layout matches exactly the intended layout as can be seen, when
comparing to the rightmost panel.
But small fonts look bad because of the lack of hinting. Recent FreeType libraries
include an auto-hinter that improves greatly on this but still gets the character
spacing wrong in some cases.
The rightmost panel is how the document will look like when running Word
in CrossOver. It is identical to the middle panel but regular
text looks significantly better. This is because CrossOver ships with a FreeType library
including Apple's patented hinting algorithms.
One of the strong points of CrossOver is the integration of the Windows applications
with your Linux environment. So don't be surprised if clicking a URL in Word,
opens that page in your favorite Linux browser, for instance Mozilla.
The reverse works too: ".doc" documents will open in Word. Of course this is configurable and can be disabled by going to the CrossOver Setup Associations panel.
Other Word tools such as WordArt and the Chart tool work too.
You will have no problem with tables either.
Word documents appear on Linux just like they do on Windows. You can then edit them using the usual Word tools, like the image retouching tool in this screenshot.
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