Wine and InDesign CS (3.0) - one step further
Uncategorized April 5th, 2007So…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…
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April 5th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
Well, first wine 0.9.35 isn’t released yet. Second, gentoo has wine 0.9.34 in portage (it’s masked, but compiles just fine here). So why don’t you try 0.9.34? I wish you the best luck and success!
April 5th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
I’ll try that, thanks.
November 15th, 2007 at 11:36 pm
(first: sorry my english is bad :P)
ok! i can run InDesign CS thanks to you, so i want share this with you and others, i can open and save files :).
you must do the next step:
1- open Indesign
2- go to (i use in spanish mode) Edit / Preferences / Files Administration (or something like that)
3- in “Files Administration” you can see “Cue Version”, there you must activate “Active Cue Version”
4- click on Accept
5- restart the aplication
6- try to open “Open Dialog”, meaby you must click 2 time to see the “open dialog”
If this dont work try to change the next dlls from windows system32 dlls:
setupapi.dll shell32.dll shlwapi.dll userenv.dll
i do this but i think “this is not necesary”
Thanks for you help!
Grettings
insulae
http://www.insulae.com.ar