Ok. Ive got Save for web working now. With a normal cxoffice 2 install from root;
If I open a aterm session and run:

/opt/cxoffice/wine -workdir "c:\program files\adobe\photoshop 7.0" "c:\program files\adobe\photoshop 7.0\photoshop.exe"

everything works, including Save for web. But when I make a shortcut in my blackbox-menu
that execute:

aterm -e /opt/cxoffice/wine -workdi.....

Photoshop will start as normal but Save for web wont work !

Anyone got an explanation to this ?
I find this very strange, but Ive got it working now so Im pleased.

Where can I find crossover office?

You can do that with microsoft sfotware??? I didnt know!!!

dude, all I need to do is get photoshop and the xp image viewer over to linux and I will be able to stop using winows completely.... i want to learn how to do this!!!!!

Have you tried The GIMP for as a replacement for Photoshop?

There are several photo viewers that are open source also. Which distro and wm or desktop
environment are you using? Kuickshow, ImageMagik, and GQView are mentioned here ->
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=161515

Anything Windoze can do, Slackware can do better -- except three:
BSOD, catch a virus, get a worm...

I am not a graphics professional nor do I make my living using graphics software. My employer had a copy of Adobe Photoshop that was used to annotate pictures of tools or molds that we were manufacturing or repairing. It was also used in the production of a 3 ring binder type manual with a nice picture of each tool we produced with all pertinent information on the product, copies of prints and specifications, etc. The back of the manual had a nice logo background with a 3D CAD model of the part produced by the tool. This whole manual was produced with Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop.
In an attempt to break some of the licensing chains binding us, I tried Gimp 1.25 for Windows and also Open Office 1.0.3. We are now using Gimp 2.0 and OpenOfficeOrg 1.1.1 and, for our purposes, the manual we now turn out using those free open source packages looks just as good and is just as pleasing to our customers as what was produced before. I say it works better because if it does the same job for me as commercial proprietary software and is free, it is better in my book.

Thanks for the reply, even if it did take almost 5 months. I'm a patient man. Must
be to run Linux without a good foundation.

I will wholeheartedly agree with your post. As I said before, I didn't intend to start
a flame, and am glad you didn't take it that way. There is still much that PS7 does
that GIMP does not do, but as you say, GIMP is free and that is a long way down the
road in my book, too.

Have you ever tried Scribus? I have used Adobe PageMaker for over a decade
now, so the transition is very hard, but those guys are on the bleeding edge, always
improving and the latest cvs of Scribus is always quite stable. I did find a bug, and
even though I didn't even know how to file a bug report, one of the maintainers
did so just by my post to the mailing list; and it was fixed that night.
Scribus is a DTP app, as is InDesign.

I'm fairly close to dumping Windoze altogether, and getting happier by the day!

Somehow I missed your earlier reply and did not find it until yesterday. It has been a crazy year so far. I have downloaded Scribus but have not actually used it. For my needs, the OpenOffice drawing works great with multiple layers that I can modify and lock. I am not anti M$ or anti proprietary software, I am just pro open source and pro freedom. Our Vantage manufacturing software running a Progress database just got migrated a few months ago from a Windows 2000 server to a Slackware 9.1 server with the SGI XFS filesystem. If your graphics files get huge, >2GB or so, try the SGI XFS filesystem. It rocks!

We just moved to a new home, and now have a new ISP. In the process of changing the
data in my router, I somehow hosed it while flashing the firmware. It's still under warranty,
and I can probably get another one when the company comes off vacation tomorrow. In
the meantime, I can't use my ADSL modem because I have no support in this kernel for
PPPoE, so I'm recompiling.

I am very much anti-M$ because of their business practices. My W2K system "just works,"
and I've got over a decade of experience with Doze. However, I'd much rather run Slack
and have just a little bit left to get working before I can dump Windoze altogether. Oh
happy day! Slack is so great at multi-tasking, and Windoze can't multi-task efficiently.

I'm not anti-proprietary software, and have no problem with programmers being paid. It's
freedom of choice, and I choose not to pay those high prices. I do prefer Open Source
software, and the collaboration of the community.

I've been using reiserfs, and don't often get files over 2GB. I couldn't hardly do that in
GIMP or Photoshop, as I know how to flatten the image and decrease the size by not
having so many layers. Digital video will get there, but I'm not doing that now.

Hi guys, thax for letting me share in your interesting posts here..

I manage to run the adobe installer partially, only with wine 20040505 installed on a minimal graphical suse9.0 install in fvwm2
But it crashes just before the installer should finish and the real setup begin, saying that my windows NT 4 versoin needs service pack 6a installed en exits.
in my xterm I see the following error #fixme:dialog:MSGBOX_OnInit task modal msgbox ! Not modal yet.

You guys have any idea?

Thx a lot!

there is a new patch that is on the cvs as of 06/02/04 for wine that is supposed to allow photoshop compatibility again; it was a problem with the implementation of the kernel32.dll

wait for the upcoming 200406xx release; it should be more promising

Whomever gave you that info learned well from Micro$$$$$loth - just wait until
the next release - it will be better, code patched, bugs fixed...right...

Not saying anything about you personally, mate, just that old line has been sold
and told and it's grown old. Besides, since Cross Over bought the maintainer for
wine, you'll have to pay to get the really good code.

??? was that necessary?

the upcoming release should be more promising because people have been filing bug reports and because there is now some talk going on to working a solution.... this SHOULD all be implemented by the next alpha release

btw, to relate my comments to m$ was pretty lame...

if you are referring to the "do it yourself" attitude for linux-using, i'm fine with that... but take a look at the work necessary to get photoshop running in the latest cvs as of this post


*note: this is the same thing i posted on the wine photoshop message board available at:
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?...versionId=1336

"w00t! same poster from before, returning to say... PHOTOSHOP IS RUNNING!!!

before i continue, thanx to the wine team, and specifically to the people who were active in discovering and fixing the photoshop problem while us little, naive end-users nagged at your feet; awesome (though I still think it is funny that all these posts were caused because of two lines of code....)

okay... to get photoshop running if it is not already successfully installed may be tedious, but worth it if it is all that is keeping that damned windoze os on your hard drive

*note: you will want to use a clean install of wine, so i recommend move your existing ~/.wine and fake_c drive elsewhere so it won't interfere with these steps (you really only need to move ~/.wine, but the cleaner, the better)

first, download wine 20030813 from
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALP...0030813.tar.gz

untar it with the usual tar zxvf Wine-20030813.tar.gz, cd into the new wine directory, and compile with the install script, ./tools/wineinstall (it must be done from the root of wine)

all the script to install a new config file and if you want to start a new c drive, that is fine... just don't use an existing windows install

once that is done, follow the steps here:
frankscorner.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=94&page=1

this is a known wine version that will successfully install and correctly write the registry information

test out photoshop, it should run; if not, you'd better not go forward until you figure out why

now, cd back into the Wine-20030813 directory and as root, do make uninstall (yes, get rid of this nasty old version); your config files and registry information will be kept intact

pull wine off cvs following these instructions:
winehq.com/site/cvs

in a terminal/konsole/etc, prefereably in the same place you issued the cvs commands, create a new file (i will called it photoshoppatch) and in this file copy the contents from this site:
bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=598&action=view

save the file; now you need to patch the cvs wine source using the file you just made; do
patch -p0 < photoshoppatch (this will work correctly as long the file and the directory wine/ are in the same place; you will know this succeeded becaue the output will say "patch succeeded")

cd into the cvs wine dir (should just be called wine) and do
./tools/wineinstall; do NOT create a new local config file or a new c drive... once this is installed, you should be set to go

go and use wine on the Photoshop.exe... happy imaging!

*note: if you already have Photoshop installed in a fake_c drive and know it runs in wine, you can skip the compiling/installing of wine-20030813

*note2: if you don't need the latest wine and don't mind running an outdated wine, you can keep 20030813

thanx again!"