[Wine] Re: abode acrobat professional 7.0 installation problem

[Olaf Leidinger]

Hello!

> > > However, when I run Acrobat.exe, it shows up but crashes within 5-6
> > > seconds without any reason.Well, I've to admit that I've no idea what might be wrong. So far as I
> > recall I had a crash, too. But for some reason it went away - hmmm...
> >
> > What you could try:
> > - install windows corefonts (look for "corefonts" in your package
> > manager) (I guess it might need the Tahoma font)
> > - run wineboot
> > - perhaps try to use native msvcrt (but afaik it worked without it)
> >
> > If that doesn't work you've to find out what's wrong by having a look
> > at the debug output:
> >
> > --> wine userguide:http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wineusr-guide/index
> > chapter 4, section 5: Environment variables
> >
> > They might help. And you could ask someone more qualified on the
> > wine-users mailing list or post your question in the app-db. IF you get
> > it working' you should also post the solution there.
> >
> > Ciao,
> >
> > Olaf
>
> Are you able to use Acro. pro 7 with wine?

Well, I tried it at work and I'm the one that rated it bronze on the
appdb-page. So yes, basically I could use it.

> I installed msttcorefonts and the missing fonts appeared correctly, but
> again the program crashed in a few seconds.
Hmmm...

> How can I debug the problem? I mean in the page you sent me there are
> lots of channels listed, should try them all? Aren't there a simpler
> way of finding the source of the problem?
Well, I'm not an expert and it's very unlikely that I could ever find
the problem. That's why it's better to
a) search on [1] for existing bugs and if no one exists open a new
bug-report
b) ask on the mailing list wine-users for help.

When looking for existing bugs I found this one (for acrobat reader,
but who knows...) : http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6344

The interesting part is this one:
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------- Additional Comment #6 From Louis Lenders  2006-10-02 09:09

Confirming. It starts fine using native ole32,shdocvw, and shlwapi.
Once it has been ran for the first time, you don't need the overrides
anymore, and it starts fine using only builtin. Maybe it's due to the
removal of mozilla control
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So you could try to use that native DLL files...

Hope that helps,

Olaf

[1] http://bugs.winehq.org

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