Here is the GOOD, the BAD, and the UGLY:
THE GOOD:
(1) The program installs OK.
Illustrator 10 installs without issue. However, I did not get a menu entry or icon, but that's a minor detail. After installation, the executable will be located at "Program Files/Adobe/Illustrator 10/Support Files/Contents/Windows/Illustrator.exe".
(2) The program starts OK.
If you change into the directory shown above and type "wine ./Illustrator.exe" from your shell prompt, Illustrator comes up without a problem.
(3) The program loads PNG files OK.
(4) More importantly for me, the program loads SVG vector graphics files
(created by SodiPodi) perfectly.
(5) A large number of basic editing and object manipulation functions that I have tested work perfectly. For example: Changing the size of a circle, square, or square with rounded corners, changing the opacity of the fill of a circle, changing font size, changing the font family, creating an ellipse and then placing some type curving along the perimeter of the ellipse, etc.
THE BAD:
(1) ALL of the little tool bar icons (i.e., the pen nib, the "T" for the text tool, the rectangle for the rectangle tool, the knife for the cropping tool, the pencil for the pencil tool, etc...) APPEAR COMPLETELY BLACK. So, the problem is that the little bitmaps (I assume they are bitmaps) for the tool bars, as well as similar little bitmaps which appear elsewhere in the program -- are not dispayed correctly. Maybe they are not being loaded correctly from the disk files?
So now you'll be wondering how I got all the stuff previously mentioned to work? Well, I printed out a screen shot of the toolbar from Windows, and I have the locations of some of the tools on the toolbar memorized anyway. So I just clicked on the black squares and since the mouse icon changes according to the selected tool, one can figure out what's going on pretty easily. But having a paper printout of the toolbar definitely helps.
(2) In Windows, clicking and holding on one of the toolbar tools brings up a list of variant tools related to the base tool. For example, clicking and holding on the "T" text tool brings up variants for typing text along a curving path, etc. In CrossOver 2.1., clicking and holding brings up a miniature window containing more black rectangles (i.e., the improperly rendered bitmaps for the tool selection). The main problem here is that the window is BEHIND the toolbar window instead of being in front where it should be. Of course the second problem is again all the bitmaps being black rectangles, so hopefully you have memorized your toolbars very well ... But let me just point out that if you have memorized the toolbars very well, then you can select the black rectangles with the mouse and get exactly what you want.
So the problems seem primarily confined to some minor display/presentation issues which I am willing to bet are PROBABLY EASY TO FIX.
THE UGLY:
... Well, I haven't found anything really ugly yet. Hooray!
- Ed Trager, 2004.02.12