[cw-discuss] Fireworks and wine

[Adrian Portway]

Hi all,

To follow up on the comments from Laurent about Dreamweaver and Fireworks 8
working with Wine I have been able to install DW8, Fireworks 8 and Flash 8
under Wine 0.9.27 and they all appear to run ok.

A word of warning however, and something Jeremy and crew may want to
investigate when planning support for these in CXOffice, I originally
installed a newer version of Wine (0.9.31) but could not get the installer to
run without reporting errors. When I downgraded to the version that the
franks corner website quotes as tested i.e. 0.9.27 everything worked fine. I
must say I'm a bit puzzled as I'd expect support for Windows apps to improve
with newer versions but I guess there are a lot of apps to test and only a
limited number of people willing to test them.

Anyway I hope this helps anybody wishing to run DW8 etc under Linux.

p.s. I'm running SimpleMEPIS 6 with the Ubuntu Dapper .deb file from WineHQ
 if anybody is interested.

Cheers,

Adrian
--

Give me ambiguity or give me something else.

On Friday 23 February 2007 02:38, Jeremy White wrote:
> Hmm.  I have to confess that I haven't personally tested
> the 8 series of Macromedia products.  The <= MX all worked
> fine in CrossOver.
>
> The MX 2004 series did not work, because they used a form
> of DRM that wasn't compatible with Wine.
>
> Now we're actually working very hard right now to make those sorts
> of copy protection work, so possibly Alexandre has succeeded,
> and I didn't know it.  Or perhaps the 8 series applications
> no longer use that form of copy protection, or perhaps someone
> is using an elicit crack, or perhaps it doesn't actually work :-/.
>
> In any case, it's clear to me that we should get the 8 series and
> get to work on testing them, as we're in theory, closing in on
> being able to make their copy protection systems work the way
> their authors intended (same goes for recent Adobe products).
>
> Finally, the difference between cxoffice and Wine is that cxoffice
> is the stable, polished, tested, and supported version of Wine.
>
> We actually do all of our work for cxoffice against Wine *first*,
> and then work to polish for each release.  So cxoffice tends
> to run a bit behind public Wine; 6.0 is a vintage from the late
> fall, essentially.
>
> So Wine is always more bleeding edge and more interesting;
> cxoffice is more reliable.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeremy
>
> Laurent Dinclaux wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is there any reason why fireworks8 installs and run using standard
> > wine and don't even run using cxoffice?
> >
> > Thought cxoffice was an enchanced version of wine....
> >
> > Can't this be fixed in a 6.1 update?
> >
> > According to franck corner website, it seem DW8 and Flash8 also
> > install using wine. (http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=webdesign)
> > Havn't tried yet because those works with CXO copying from a windows
> > installation.
>
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