Fred A. Miller wrote:
On Sunday 20 November 2005 4:36 am, Daniel Eckl wrote:
Hi Fred.
That's simply wrong.
In the past (about 5 years ago) you could download Corel Photopaint 9 for Linux from http://linux.corel.com/
You are right, that this is no native linux app, but it has been seriously tweaked and was explicitely ment to run through wine libs which were included in the package.
That was my point..........it's a "Bloze" application. It was and still is!
It was horrible and nearly unusably slow, but it worked.
But it's end of life now, because it doesn't run on newer distributions because of gcc libraries which are not binary compatible if the version step is too large.
They didn't want to spent the needed time on this and so they just removed the linux.corel.com site.
Yep..............and better they did. Either port it and support it correctly, or get rid of it.
Fred
Hi: Some time ago I was working with Corel Photo Paint in its original linux-wine version. Later on, Corel Photo Paint did not work anymore under linux. When I need my old Corel files, I use a windows version of Corel I installed with wine, with the only purpose of translating the propietary files to a different format. I use Gimp with success for all my tasks. There are also a lot of other programs for tasks like blending, panorama-views or for changing the properties of the photos. I dont need any more Corel. Try to work with Gimp. There are a lot of good tutorials. You can also take a look on "Digikam". Good luck, Beatriz