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Canvas 7 beta for Linux - now available

Posted by HeUnique on from the grab-it-:) dept.

As the title says - Canvas 7 Beta is now available for downloading. This version was ported and compiled using WineLib. RPM, DEB, and TAR.GZ files available (which covers all Linux Distros). Could anyone grab it and post their impressions? These days it seems that the graphics programs market for Linux is heating up :)

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  1. Not bad (sidenote:WPO2000 uses wine, not winelib!) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5

    I grabbed it. Seems pretty stable & full featured for a beta. Imports & exports many formats. It's really a vector drawing program so it competes w/ the likes of sketch very successfully. It also seems to have a lot of page layout capabilities.

    To run it I had to run their 'wineserver' first & then run canvas7.

    Also make sure you use 'unmanaged' windows.

    I decided to compare the way they use winelib to the way Wordperfect Office uses winelib. I altered the wpolauncher script to use unmanaged windows. That gives the windows a Win95 look & feel but it makes the WPO applications significantly faster.

    Then I noticed something: Wordperfect Office uses wine, not winelib!

    Check this out:
    [jthomas2@bob programs]$ file wpwin9.exe
    wpwin9.exe: MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or MS Windows

    and
    [jthomas2@bob programs]$ file prwin9.exe
    prwin9.exe: MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or MS Windows

    Compare this to:
    canvas7: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped

    That explains why some of those corel office applications, especially their presentation app run so slowly!

    Someone from Corel want to explain this?