Phil wrote: > I think coreldraw 11 works well with wine, because its the last > major > revision to work in windows 98? please somone corrent me if im > wrong, > but i have tried to do extensive research on the subject. From what > i > remember, lots of programs that require XP/2k or IE7, have problems > etc..
NOTHING works well with Wine solely because it worked under Win 98 or earlier. With Wine, everything is a crap shoot. An old Win 3.1 program might work fine; another old Win 3.1 program won't work at all. And so on up the line. I don't think I've ever tried a Windows program under Wine that *required* W2K or later and I've certainly never tried IE7 under Wine. But being designed for an earlier version of Windows is no guarantee whatever that something will work with Wine. The only way to find out is to install it and see what happens. You can do a certain amount of tweaking with winecfg, including designating what version of Windows Wine should look like to the app. Sometimes this helps, often it doesn't. It is also possible to do extensive troubleshooting with programs that won't work in hopes you may find the "magic switch" that will get them working. But that exceeds my allotment of geekiness, so I haven't tried it. I have a very few Windows programs I want readily available in Linux without bothering with a virtual machine. Most have run under Wine. A couple have refused to install, or have installed but not worked. With me it's either they run or they don't and if they don't, I just give up. Maybe someday I'll have time to kill and can try to troubleshoot, but for now, that's not in the cards. So the question becomes: is anyone running CorelDraw 11 successfully under Wine? On this list? Or listed on the winehq.org site as compatible? The last version of CorelDraw I have is CD9. It runs okay under XP; I haven't tried it under Vista. I didn't try to install it under Wine. My goal in using Linux is to use Linux programs, not try to run Windows programs under Linux. I agree that having hundreds or thousands of CDR files is a problem in making the switch. I usually boot to Windows, run CorelDraw, load the files I need, and save them as EPS. Then I boot to Linux and have to hope that the EPS opens correctly in Scribus (or Inkscape). Some do not. If that happens, I try OOo Draw, which sometimes works when others don't. I might be able to do these things with command line tools, but I have a lot more trouble with them and waste lots of time trying to figure out what modifiers, parameters, etc., etc. I need and I usually can't figure it out anyway. --Judy Miner USA Registered Linux User #397786
