Wyrtual Life

So…as you probably found in your googling, people seem to be happily running InDesign 2.0 under wine. Some even seem to have found a way to get Photoshop CS 2 running. But most attempts to have a go at InDesign 3.0 aka CS fail at the end of the splash screen.

You can do something about this: open you winecfg, create a InDesign.exe application profile and create the following dll overrides: comctl32 (builtin, native), comdlg32, commctrl (native, builtin), ole2, ole32, oleaut32, rpcltc1, rpcltc5, rpcltccm, rpclts5, rpcltspx, rpcmqcl, rpcmqsvr, rpcns4, rpcrt4. Set them all to native if not otherwise given in parentheses here.

Of course you will need the according dlls in you fakewin/windows/system32 dir. ies4linux can get them for you.

This will make both the installer and InDesign.exe run almost flawlessly.

However…a critical remaining issue is that the open and save dialogs don’t show up. Apparently there is a problem with actctx. From what i’ve googled it seems it’s a core kernel32 part that was introduced in Windows XP and needs to be implemented in wine core. It also seems it’s one of the working areas at the wine project.

I’m using 0.9.29 (which is what gentoo has currently). Maybe there’s improvement in 0.9.35 already? If anyone could shed more light into this…

Hei guys. Finally, i managed to get Wordpress running again. From browsing the web, i could figure that the possibilities with this new version are great. Plus I’m using Flickr for my photos now and will integrate them through a plugin. Just need to make a decision about the right one. And i guess i need to customize the theme to something i really like. So i’ll keep yous posted.