Comments on Solid Documents Blog: Convert PDF to Word on OS X and Linux

Yeah, that MSXML one looks like MSXML6, which hasn...

2009-06-02T09:46:03.116-07:00

Yeah, that MSXML one looks like MSXML6, which hasn't been implemented fully in Wine yet. Though you can install the Microsoft version easily enough with Winetricks, a script to install certain native DLLs into your Wine setup.

Er, yes, run it in the latest Wine then ask the forum in the first instance :-)

Thanks for the info David. :) When I first run So...

2009-06-02T09:20:52.396-07:00

Thanks for the info David. :)

When I first run Solid PDF Tools with Wine I get the message below in my terminal:

"""
fixme:msxml:domdoc_load VT type not supported (9)
XPath error : Undefined namespace prefix
xmlXPathEval: evaluation failed
fixme:msxml:support_error_InterfaceSupportsErrorInfo (0x146f18)->({2933bf81-7b36-11d2-b20e-00c04f983e60})
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000000 at address 0x1309e26 (thread 001f), starting debugger...
"""

A window appears saying that "The program SolidPDFTools.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to close..."

Closing the window dumps the stack from Wine, and then our product appears. (I'm guessing this is the splash screen crashing, and not the main product)

I then tried converting our license agreement from the folder our software is installed in into a DOC file on my desktop. This worked well.

I then tried converting another sample file I downloaded from our website:

http://www.soliddocuments.com/samples/pdf_orgplus.pdf

After a few minutes the conversion failed. The output from my terminal was:

"""
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x7e4f91c0 "handle.c: MSCMS_handle_cs" wait timed out in thread 0032, blocked by 0009, retrying (60 sec)
<...snipping fixme messages...>
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"7ef8625d"
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"3160000"
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"c0000194"
"""

Googling some of the above error messages isn't particularly helpful, so I think that you're right that posting the question to the winehq forum would be the next step.

If you have the code and want to make your stuff w...

2009-06-02T01:52:03.265-07:00

If you have the code and want to make your stuff work on Wine, the Wine developers and users can be very helpful. Could be you use stuff that just won't be in Wine yet for a while, could be something simpler.

e.g. what's the output when you start the app from a terminal? It should spew a list of stuff it can't quite do. (If it's a "FIXME", ignore that - if it's "Err:", that might be it.)

Then you can add your app to this list and you'll have a small but ardent group of users on Linux ;-)

First port of call would probably be the user forum: http://winehq.org/forum .