On 28 Apr 03, at 15:27, Bruce Griffis wrote: > > 11. Re: Problems Running Word Perfect 9 for Win32 > > under Wine (David > > Jones) > > > Hmm, don't know WP9 much, but WP used to have a > > feature called (IIRC) enhanced file dialogs. It was an > > option to replace the standard Windows File Open and > > such like dialog boxes with enhanced ones. > > David, thanks for the hint! I started WP9 (under Wine) and > went into Tools. Found my way to the settings and turned > off Enhanced file dialogs. It's improved a lot! I can open > several smaller documents, and WP9 now automatically > translates gif's, jpegs, ... into the proper form. That's pretty good! > It still hangs on some larger, more involved documents - > but seems fine in both English and Spanish for smaller > documents with graphics. I'd try to talk the group into > going with a DTP package (it's for a weekly bulletin) - > but think they'd lean towards MS FrontPage (argh!!!). I've done professional DTP work in PageMaker, Ventura Publisher, Word, and had encounters with FrontPage - but perhaps you mean MS Publisher???? Anyway, WP matches up with any of them for DTP work. I did my church's weekly service bulletin and monthly newsletter using WP for 6 years. > Anyway - thanks - we're most of the way there. Can now > create, save, open, do graphics, ... - just get hung up on > complex documents. I had also fiddled with DLL load > orders, but put them all back to standard - that seems to > give the least problems. Too bad Corel doesn't sell WP8 for Linux anymore ... I have that here, just as powerful as WP for Windows! David gnome@hawaii.rr.com _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
