[softwarelist] Re: File problems

On 19 Nov at 18:07 Bernard G Hill <berni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone help with running OP under Wine on Linux?
> 
> When I attempt to run OP I always get the following error message: Invalid
> name (FindFirstFile)(123)
> (<HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\DavidPilling\OvationPro\>\Colours\*.*)
> 
> The file 'Colours' is present.
> 
> It is quite likely that my system is not correctly set up.
> 
> Any help with this would be much appreciated; but help must be in the form
> of a blow by blow account of the steps I need to take.
> 
> I find that the printing output from Scribus is a bit weak in that
> multiple pages on one sheet and pamphlet printing and the like are not
> supported. How I would love OP to be a native Linux program. In any case,
> I find Scribus much more difficult to use as many other things which are
> easy to accomplish in OP, I cannot do or find very difficult with Scribus.
> The main attraction of Scribus is PDF output.
> 
> I would be very happy to pay for the WinOP version but must be able to run
> on Linux. I am pretty sure that someone is running OP under Linux.
> 
> Thanks in advance. Berni.
> 

I agree with you, my dream would be to continue to use OP, and I wish I
could be more encouraging. I also agree that Linux is desperately short of a
good native DTP, and it would be ideal if OP could fill that gap.

I made a very serious attempt a year or so ago at running OP under wine, and
even paid for the windows version. However, there were just too many
niggling problems to use it on a production basis, and I gave up in the end.


David has indicated that he may put in some work to resolve the
incompatibilities, but I believe he got sidetracked from this intention.

David, would you be interested in discussing a commercial tie-up to port OP
to QT/Linux?

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Tony van der Hoff        | mailto:tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Buckinghamshire, England

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