[cw-discuss] Go back to 5.03?

[John Jason Jordan]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:29:05 +0000
Derek Fountain <derekfountain at yahoo.co.uk> dijo:

> John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > Version 5.03 had its clunky moments, but 6.0 is unusable.
> 
> Which OS are you on?

Ubuntu Edgy amd64.

I spent some time today trying to fix things. Version 6 does allow me
to do one thing I could not do in 5.03: Install Corel Graphics Suite 9.
It installed in 5.03 but none of the apps would launch. I posted about
my success with 6.0 on Codeweaver's forums.

I also tried Illustrator 10. I had it installed on 5.03, but all the
icons were black boxes. I was hoping 6.0 would work better. But I got
the same results, whether I used a Win2000 bottle or an XP bottle. 

I was also hoping to be able to install InDesign CS. It installed on
5.03, but the setup did not create launch entries for it and I could
never figure out how to run it. With 6.0 it installed and created
launch menu items. But when I tried to launch it it hung at the point
where it said "calling late initializers." (InDesign's splash screen
tells you the whole bloody story of what it is doing as the program
launches.) Worse, it hung and I couldn't unhang it. It wasn't listed in
top, and Terminate Windows Programs didn't do it either. The splash
screen was in the middle of the desktop, transparent but with black
lines across it, and it took the focus from anything I tried to place
on top of it. It remained there even if I switched workspaces. I
finally got rid of it by killing gdm -- Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. I got the
same results whether I installed it in a Win2000 bottle or a WinXP
bottle. But I became accustomed to Ctrl-Alt-Backspace today, since 6.0
hung on me repeatedly.

I'd have tried a Win98 bottle, but both Illustrator 10 and InDesign
require Win2000 or XP.

Regarding Adobe Reader 7.x, that appears to be a hopeless cause. The
only way I am going to get that working again is to uninstall 6.0 and
reinstall 5.03. I could do without it, but Gnome 2.16.1 that comes with
Edgy broke the Linux version of Reader 7, and I must have one or the
other. That is because Adobe Reader 7.0 and 8.0 are the only PDF
readers that can do editable PDFs. The open source PDF viewers are not
there yet.

At this point I know I can get Adobe Reader 7.08 installed under
Crossover Office 5.03. I have no idea when there will be a fix for
Gnome 2.16.1. Therefore I have no recourse but to go back to 5.03. And
a side benefit is that the 5.03 install software utility never locked
up my computer.

Perhaps later. Thanks to everyone for the suggestions.