I installed Lotus Forms Viewer 3.5 with Wine and I thought it was successful. When I tried opening an xfd or xfdl file the forms viewer opens but the file does not. I am new to Wine so any help would be appreciated. I am trying to find someway to open Air Force forms and I figured Wine would be the best route. I am running Mac OSX 10.6.2 with a 3.06 Intel Core 2 Duo and 4 GB Ram.
chef wrote:> I installed Lotus Forms Viewer 3.5 with Wine and I thought it was successful. When I tried opening an xfd or xfdl file the forms viewer opens but the file does not. I am new to Wine so any help would be appreciated. I am trying to find someway to open Air Force forms and I figured Wine would be the best route. > > I am running Mac OSX 10.6.2 with a 3.06 Intel Core 2 Duo and 4 GB Ram. > >Chief: There is a missing function in Wine's implementation of riched20 that prevents using PureEdge and Lotus Forms Viewers. You might be glad to know that there is activity on fixing this. In the meantime, winetricks riched20 is what you need to make this program work (maybe). If you give me a download site, I would gladly test it on my Mac with the current version of the patch I'm working on (with several others as well.) Contact me off-list if needed. James McKenzie
James, Thanks for the information. You can download the forms viewer from the following link: http://www.e-publishing.af.mil/viewerdownload.asp It's good to hear the it is being worked on. I'll give winetricks a shot and see what happens, otherwise I'll wait for the fix.
I tried applying riched20 but when I trying opening an xfdl file I get the following error: unable to find or load a Rich Edit DLL. Let me know if you better luck.
> >I tried applying riched20 but when I trying opening an xfdl file I get the following error: > >unable to find or load a Rich Edit DLL. >Chief: I'll attempt to find out why this is not working this evening, if someone else here does not get to it first. James McKenzie
Hopefully you figure out what is the problem.
Thanks for the update and your hard work!
James, Do you know if the fix was included in the latest update?
>From: chef <wineforum-user at winehq.org> >Sent: Feb 21, 2010 12:18 PM >To: wine-users at winehq.org >Subject: [Wine] Re: Lotus Forms Viewer 3.5 > >James, > >Do you know if the fix was included in the latest update? >No it was not. A couple of us developers are working out how best to test the fix and to see if it needs more work. James McKenzie
chef wrote:> Ok > >One other thing. The program seems to like crashing without warning when opening an Army supplied form and another XFDL form that I found. I will continue to do testing and see if this is fixable. James McKenzie
if you need any other forms let me know
That's the problem I am having with the forms viewer, it would just crash. Thanks for working on a fix.