Crossover office trial version is supposed to be the same as the
purchase version, just it runs out in 30 days, and there is less support.
photoshop CS installed and ran similar to in wine but printing not
working out of the box as in wine. This may just be that I havent
installed printer /driver in wine/crossover yet.
flash mx fails to install
flash 4 installs but no tool palette, so not yet working.
premiere fails to install
these are the same results as for wine.
cross over just has nicer install wizard guis and puts menu items in
your applications menu automatically, and you are buying a level of
support on supported applications, which are the ones they know work
(relatively short list on their website).
Wine/crossover office is said to have benefited by recent interest of
Hollywood animation studios in getting photoshop working on wine, so
photoshop CS now works on wine despite it being on the list of
applications that don't work on crossover offices website.
cheers
Ken
James William Dumay wrote:
For macromedia products it memory serves crossover office supports these
out of the box.
Although not completely foss it might be worth looking at it
Cheers,
James Dumay
On Nov 27, 2007, at 3:15 PM, Ken Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Lisa uses ubuntu for some of her work and dual boots into windows xp
mainly for adobe/macromedia photoshop, flash, premiere, after effects,
director and sound forge. There is a bit she does on a mac as well.
Often there is something that needs a visual tweak but she is back in
linux. GIMP she finds hard as she knows photoshop and does not want to
learn a second way of doing things. Gutsy upgraded GIMP from 2.2 to
2.4 which introduced some changes that were not liked so we tried
GIMPshop but it didn't do what she wanted.
Wine has succeeded in installing and running but have not yet
extensively tested photoshop CS. Director, and sonic forge installed
and appear to work. Flash 5 installed but doesn't run. Premier
installed but looks dodgy on a brief look. Flash MX and after effects
failed to install.
If these programmes could be run in wine or virtualisation then the
need to switch back and forward between Operating systems in the
middle of work flow would be removed.
My question is what of the half dozen available virtualisation system
is going to be best for this collection of programmes? Does anyone
have any experience?
cheers
Ken
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