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.
update : Point 1 (MText crash) is fixed on git. Points 2 and 3 still need manual patching. Ciao Max
2009/4/23 miciomax <wineforum-user at winehq.org>:> 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-devel/2009-April/thread.html#74858 http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2009-May/thread.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.
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?