Some news for AutoCAD users

miciomax · Post by **miciomax** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:32 pm

Well, finally some news that make Autocad almost perfect on wine.
Tested on 2005 and 2008.
To install AutoCAD, just follow the howto on appdb.
Here the patchsets :

1) Multiline text editor crash : go to bug 14827 page (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14827) download and apply the patch to wine tree and rebuild/install it.
Please don't ask how to do it.... it's on many places in forums.
The patch is a temporary hack, but it makes MTEXT happy.

2) Slow TrueType fonts display : go to bug 421 page (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421) and download latest testing (unofficial) DIB engine; apply the patchset to wine tree and rebuild as usual.
Before launching autocad you must set the environment variable WINEDIB to ON; from a terminal :
export WINEDIB=ON
You can also create a launcher for it, and the engine can also be permanently enabled by registry. It's (more or less) all explained on bug 421 page. Be sure to fetch the latest patchset, as the engine is being actively updated.
If you apply correctly the engine AND enable it, you'll notice a speed gain with truetype fonts about 100:1 times oe even more, depending on how many texts you have in drawing.

3) Unable to print/plot on paper format different to printer's default one : go to bug 15942 page and fetch latest patch; apply to wine tree and rebuild as usual.

From now AutoCAD will be 99.9% usable on wine. There are still a couple of graphics quirks, but are harmless.

There's still the registration problem, which is a regression from around wine 1.1.5. On autocad 2005 appdb page there's an howto which explains how to work around the issue.

Again, please don't ask for help applying the patches....No time on these days.
Looking on forum, wine hq and bugzilla pages you can find all you need

Ciao

Max

miciomax · Post by **miciomax** » Fri May 01, 2009 11:25 am

update : Point 1 (MText crash) is fixed on git.
Points 2 and 3 still need manual patching.

Ciao

Max

David Gerard · Post by **David Gerard** » Fri May 01, 2009 1:44 pm

2009/4/23 miciomax <[email protected]>:

2) Slow TrueType fonts display : go to bug 421 page (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421) and download latest testing (unofficial) DIB engine; apply the patchset to wine tree and rebuild as usual.

Massimo, who wrote the patch, is working on (1) how to get it into
good enough shape that Alexandre will accept it for Wine (but this is
a hard problem) and (2) putting together an unofficial build of Wine
with the patch in for Autocad users and to give the patch good
real-world testing

Discussion on dev list is at:

http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-de ... html#74858
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-de ... html#75280

Probably not of great user interest

The hard part is how to get it
into Wine in such a way as to be confident it won't cause massive
regressions for lots of other software running on Wine.

- d.

ruelle · Post by **ruelle** » Tue May 05, 2009 7:30 pm

Oh Good news!!!

But we also have other bugs for autocad
http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=autocad

I think we (who is not a programmer) have to spread this link to every blog or forum talking about Wine and AutoCAD, cause we have to find more ways to help people who are fixing bugs, like max.

what do you think about?

miciomax · Post by **miciomax** » Wed May 06, 2009 4:15 am

ruelle wrote:Oh Good news!!!

But we also have other bugs for autocad
http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=autocad

I think we (who is not a programmer) have to spread this link to every blog or forum talking about Wine and AutoCAD, cause we have to find more ways to help people who are fixing bugs, like max.

what do you think about?

Well, remaining bugs are mostly minor ones.... the most annoying is probably the registration page, and there's a workaround for it.
For usable TT fonts you still need a patched wine version.....

Max