Re: Leaving windows behind.

From: srm (user_at_example.net)
Date: 08/09/04 

Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 10:30:52 +0200

jello wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am on a quest to "close the windows" as someone in this group put it. I
> am a regular user of Dreamweaver and I have read a few articles on the web
> about getting Dreamweaver to work under Linux through Wine. I have digested
> what people have said in this forum about the merits of VMware and crossover
> and the like. It occured to me that possibly the best way to go about
> closing the windows, for me at least, is to find a Linux replacement for
> Dreamweaver. I have heard "Blowfish" mentioned, but all I can find about
> blowfish is that it is an encryption system.
>
> I use dreamweaver for its features (Library, FTP, Templates, Site Management
> tools for dealing with a large site not just a homepage) and not just for
> HTML coding, I need a WYSIWYG editor that can handle layers and tables for
> layout purposes.
>
> I work in the graphic design field with Windows (!) and at work this won't
> be changing, but I am determined that things will be changing at home (I
> freelance too).
>
> I recently found out that Photoshop is available for Linux, so that problem
> is solved.

It is?

> Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

You won't find anything with the features of Dreamweaver available
natively under Linux. I use Adobe GoLive, even though a lot of my web
stuff these days in hand-coded (using PHP) for which I use Quanta.
However, for *designing*, rather than *coding* pages (big difference),
there's nothing on Linux that offers the convenience and speed of
something like Dreamweaver or GoLive.

That's the bad news. The good news is that, I believe, Dreamweaver works
pretty well under Crossover Office. I've used CO for MS Office apps
(since dispensed with - just a temporary bridging method to Linux), for
Photoshop (maybe this is what you were thinking) and Filemaker. It works
extremely well and doesn't cost much. Not everything works with it,
though (my accounts software refuses to load under CO, dammit).

VMware is a far more expensive option, but I hear it's very effective,
allowing you to run Windows under Linux, as it were, so that when
Windows crashes you still have a system running :-)

@+
srm

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