On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 5:26 AM, drpetrov<wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, folks. > > I'm new to both Ubuntu Linux and Wine. > > I've been running Lotus Ami Pro for years under Windows 98 and have about 70MB of Ami Pro files. Nowadays, though, printers are not made to support Windows 98 anymore. > > I had heard about WINE, and rather than buy another Microsoft product, I decided to see if I could run Ami Pro under another OS. My new printer works perfectly under Linux, so that's not a problem. > > Abiword can open Ami Pro files, but only if they do not contain tables or frames. Well, tables and frames are pretty damn important and 90% of my documents have one or the other. > > Ami Pro runs under Windows 3.1 so I figured it would work perfectly under WINE. It doesn't use the registry and only has a couple of .ini files you need to put in the WINDOWS directory. It's a win16 program then...they're supposed to work under wine, but have more bugs since they aren't tested as much. File a bug. -- -Austin
