Paint Shop Pro 8 Forum

Hello,

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that wants/needs to see Paint Shop Pro working under Linux. My own personal experience with PSP was been mostly with general graphic design for use on the web, and some limited game design work. I've been working with PSP for about 4 years now and must say I think it's the best program in it's field. I guess it's just that it's been so long since I've used anything else I'm just too comfortable with it to really rely on anything else. That and I just don't like Gimp all that much. :)

My own results under linux have been the same as Tika's (Great job with the Known Issues and Tricks section by the way) so I really have nothing more to add about the retail version. However with my results with the trial version I found that it installs just fine, but when it comes time to launch all I see is the splash screen (Creating Windows..) and then it crashes.

I hope to get to know everyone and look forward to working together twards getting Paint Shop Pro working.

System(s):

AMD Athlon 2000+
512MB DDR 2100
ATI Radeon 7800
Suse 9.0 Pro

Pentium 4 2.53
1000MB DDR 2100
ATI Radeon 7800
Mandrake 9.2

Hi Micheal! :) I have had that happen when in Windows and I move the directory where it stores "My PSP8 Files". I assume you hadn't moved that dir. Does it crash every time you try to run it? It would be nice to get the trial running too, for those that want to try it in Linux before buying PSP. What version of the trial did you use? If not 8.1 you might want to download the latest. They did make some updates in the program.

Thx for the compliment on the other areas. :) Those areas (unlike the forum here) will use HTML code so I typed it in HTML.

You might want to add your problem with the trial version in the Known Issues area. Also you might want to put your rating in too. You can always change your rating later. While putting in the known issue about the crash, it'd be helpful to mention you were using the Trial version. I think I should edit my submission to mention I was using the CD version.

Tika,

I used version 8.1 (freash off the jasc site). I had same problem once also under Windows. I didn't change a single thing with this install. The only thing I can think of is that the Folder "My PSP8 Files" is under:

home/myusername/Documents/

Not sure if that above dir is simulated as "My Documents" or not.

I only tested the trial version for the same reason you stated. To allow users to try it out before buying it. :)

On my system, it put the My PSP8 Files in my ~/[username] folder. I also did something to help with the hacking... pop a term shell (like konsole) and do this?

ln -s ~/.cxoffice ~/CxOffice

This puts a folder "CxOffice" in your ~/[username] folder. This is easier to see and use than a (dot) file. Then you can access the config files and stuff to do a little hacking/snooping. :)

For the problem you're describing, I'm thinking maybe you could examine the ~/.cxoffice/dotwine/config file in a text editor. Look under the [wine] area. I didn't see any entry for "Documents" but wondering if that could be changed? Before hacking the config file, you might want to copy the original to a file like config_original and never edit that one, just work with copies.

I've done some wine config file hacking before, but I haven't seen anything that references a pointer to the documents folder.

I just saw something. In ~/.cxoffice/dotwine/user.reg text file there's an area [Software\\Jasc\\Global] and in it is "PSP8DefaultWrite"="Y:\\My PSP8 Files\\". If you looked at the config file mentioned earlier, the "Y" drive is actually your $HOME directory. Hmm... wonder if you backed up the orginal user.reg file, and made the change there and tried again? Like change it to C:\\My Documents\\My PSP8 Files? You'd also have change all instances, as later on in the user.reg file it references for Brushes, Bump Maps, etc. that are within the My PSP8 Files folder. While this would normally be done in PSP's own File Locations dialog, since you can't get past the start screen, it might be needed to tweak the registry.

Oh yeah, and did I mention to BACKUP your files and never edit the originals? I guess I said that again. ;) I keep trying to remind myself of that because when hacking config files, things have a habit of getting miscombobulated to pieces if you don't have backups handy. Heck, I even sometimes back them up to a floppy disk and store that somewhere safe, just in case!

Anyway, I hope some of this info might be of use to you in getting it going. I did remember something about PSP 8 trial not letting you make some of the changes that the full version would, like default installation directory and things like that. But I can't remember if that was just for the Beta versions or final... It might be some of what is keeping the trial from running, I'm wondering.