Installing Acrobat Reader 7 and Acrobat in general
gslink
gslink at one.net
Mon May 16 08:43:44 CDT 2005
The user interface is what the user has to do to use the program. This
is not supported in Wine. You will find links from winehq to several
lists of things that run under Wine. When you attempt to use these
lists you will find that many if not most of the programs do not run as
is.
The user outside the Wine world sees a totally false picture of Wine.
He loads Wine and finds there are NO current instructions on how to use
it so he presumes Wine to be worthless and goes away. Even if he
persists there is still the problem of figuring out exactly how to make
many if not most of the programs in the will run database work. The
public simply won't put up with this. You can't have Wine so that a
user must be a priest to load a special dll or to find out what special
dll is necessary.
Currently, there needs to be a short document written and KEPT up to
date. To install and use Wine do ....... This document needs to point
to somewhere where the user can get more help. There needs to be a WIKI
where postings can be made specifically concerning what is necessary to
make a program work on Wine. How do you currently make Office or
Acrobat work on Wine? To my knowledge there are currently no large or
complicated programs that you just load and run under Wine. You must
set them all up first. It doesn't make any difference to the user if a
program fails because of a sound driver. Waiting for all this to be
fixed perfectly means a wait forever and serves no purpose without at
least simple instructions on how to use Wine now.
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