On Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 10:17:22 AM UTC+10, Bones wrote: > This may have some value to some members here. > > Being a Linux user now for some 8 years and not having to deal with > Microflaccid Windoze has its many benefits, however not being able to use > Pepakura Viewer has been a pain in the proverbial. This moring I got the > latest version to run under WINE, something that has eluded me for some time > now even though the earlier versions worked natively under WINE. > > I'm currently running Mint Linux 17 32 bit and after downloading the latest > Pepakura Viewer I updated WINE to version 1.8 by adding the :ppa via command > line and then installing it with the packet manager after removing the > previous version. > > Next was the installation of Pepakura with WINE and getting an error with the > execution. A .dll, opengl32.dll was downloaded from Tamasoft here > > http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura/dlls/opengl32_v4/OPENGL32.DLL > > and it was put into the folder /home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program > Files(x86)/tamasoftware/pepakura3en/viewer . Once that was in, using the > WINE configuration program, it was added into the Libraries tab and under the > Applications tab I added the Pepakura executable. > > Wonder of wonders much to my amazement the program opened and a .pdo was > imported and it worked !!!! I think I'm going to have to have a bit of a lie > down now to get over the shock. > > I haven't tried to print it yet but even if that doesn't work I'll do what I > usually do and open the .pdo in Windoze and print it out as a .pdf with > Cutepdf and then print the sheets out and simply use the program to build > with. > > I hope this helps somebody here as having to use Windoze or even Windoze > running as a virtual machine to open a .pdo is a big pain at the best of > times. > > Bones
Oh yeah, one other thing is to tell WINE what version of Windoze you want to emulate, I selected Win 7. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
