• Please note: In an effort to ensure that all of our users feel welcome on our forums, we’ve updated our forum rules. You can review the updated rules here: http://forums.wolflair.com/showthread.php?t=5528.

    If a fellow Community member is not following the forum rules, please report the post by clicking the Report button (the red yield sign on the left) located on every post. This will notify the moderators directly. If you have any questions about these new rules, please contact support@wolflair.com.

    - The Lone Wolf Development Team

HL in Linux -- working PDF export

D

dreww

Member
I have been using Hero Lab in Linux using the windows emulation program known as WINE. I just wanted to report that PDF export can be made to work properly by moving fonts from a Windows system font directory to the wine fonts directory which allows the seamless use of HL within Linux.

In my specific case, I copied the entire contents of my Windows 7 directory c:/Windows/Fonts to the directory .wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts which is a hidden directory in my home directory.

After doing so, PDF export works properly.

I am using wine version 1.2 with the Linux Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) distribution.

Hope this helps anyone that wishes to run HL in Linux!
 
Another note on HL in Linux through wine.

One can get custom character sheets by installing the msxml6 library. This is best done through the "winetricks" program as follows:

1. Open a terminal to get a shell prompt
2. At the prompt type "winetricks msxml6<enter>" (this should install windows XML libraries needed for export).

Your export functions should then work.

I have used this for all of the available custom export functions and for Shadow's custom character sheets with no problems.
 
Thanks for the tips, dreww! I'll make sure to point people to this thread if they have questions about the PDF and custom output stuff in future. :)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top