Guitar Pro 5 With Wine Suse 10.3

Wine with Guitar Pro 5 working under SuSE 10.3 on Dell Inspirion 6000

No easy task ...

Under KDE

So start with installing wine-0.9.44 and timidity 2.13.2

I used yast2 but had changed repos, not sure it matters

Get Guitar Pro 5 install: wine setup.exe

This should create the $HOME/.wine directory

run winecfg and setup your sound appropriatly to your sound card, I used alsa with standard, 44100, 16 and driver emulation. Graphics set to check Allow the window manager to control the windows, Direct 3D set to Hardware and checked the pixel shader box the dpi is at 96. Applications default settings are set to Windows 2000.

I then went into $HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Guitar\ Pro\ 5/ and copied the fonts/Guitar Pro 5.ttf file to $HOME/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts/Guitar Pro 5.ttf and Guitar Pro 5.TTF I also copied from a windows machine the fonts directory and put them in the $HOME/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts/ directory and copied the $HOME/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts/ directory to /usr/share/wine/fonts/

Check if there is the $HOME/.fonts directory cd into $HOME/.fonts and creat a symlink
ln -sf $HOME/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts/Guitar Pro 5.ttf Guitar Pro 5.ttf
and
ln -sf $HOME/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts/Guitar Pro 5.TTF Guitar Pro 5.TTF

** Keep in mind the files are actually going to be Guitar\ Pro\ 5.ttf or *.TTF in a shell prompt including when you create the symlinks OK

now run the command: wine regedit

Go to :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Software
Microsoft
WindowsNT
Fonts

Right click on the Fonts folder and click New String Value give it the name Guitar Pro 5 (True Type) and then right click on it go to modify and enter Guitar Pro 5.TTF

Exit from the wine regedit

Close any mixer apps running i.e kmix
I had to close out of kmix and as root run alsconf to have the alsa module setup. Really depends on the soundcard, I had an issue with the modems speaker using oss modules. Found that after a reboot, with kmix auto starting didn't matter, sound still worked in Guitar Pro 5. I did creat a link on my KDE Desktop to the GuitarPro.sh in my wine path so I could just click on it.

cd into the $HOME/ .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Guitar\ Pro\ 5/ directory and create a shell script, named mine GuitarPro.sh it looks like this:

GuitarPro.sh

#!/bin/bash

timidity -iA -B2,4 -Os -EFreverb=0&

cd $HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Guitar\ Pro\ 5/$1
env WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine" wine GP5.exe
sleep 1
killall timidity

that's what you'll use to start up Guitar Pro 5 instead of GP5.exe with wine, so you need to chmod +x
GuitarPro.sh

All should be ready now just run ./GuitarPro.sh

When the Program opens click the options menu and select audio settings the port device needs to have timidity selected.

The rest of mine is

Straight Through
Windows Media
dmix:0
Freq 44100
channels stereo
Resolution 16 bit
Resample Linear Interpolation
Virtual Voices had at one turned all the way up don't think it matters really.

I also installed the RSE_BASSES GUITARS AND DRUMS for Guitar Pro 5, and all seems to work perfectly.

If you go through all this and still have trouble feel free to contact me, or post back to this. I know it isn't for the faint of heart, it has taken me a few days to get it to work. But I've been wanting to play my AXE and now I'm going to enjoy them even more.

HAVE FUN AND KEEP PRACTICING, IT'S GOOD FOR YOU.

<_< Printing from Guitar Pro 5

**EDIT: Some of the below statements aren't true. I actually did make progress with printing in GP5, but only got as far as getting thrown an error message about stndin on the printer from kjobviewer. So the print is sent to the computers printer, but quickly gets nixed.

EDIT #2 Riddle me this, I created a directory within .wine/PF/GP5 called Tabs for the tabs, and I was just looking in there and it has these files which are the names from the registry entries I was messing with from wine, full of data, and apparently post script from what I can see. So it appears that GP5 is redirecting on its own, hmmm and apparently it is wanting to print to the same directory the original file was opened from. There's got to be a work around there someplace.

Wine I could use a few bottles after trying to get printed music from GP5. I found absolutely no way to get the printer to work directly from GP5, I edited the registry 100's of different ways, then a brainstorm, try printing from another windows program, so I open notepad in wine type hello and go to print and it prints no problem.

The work around I've got to work is export the musical score from gp5 while running under wine to a bitmap .bmp file, I then opened it with whatever other linux program "Gwenview" and print it out, seems to think the bmp is to big for the paper, and asks if you want to shrink so it doesn't utilize all the paper but it's legable, the notes are there and it does what I want it too.

I'd appreciate if anyone does get the print function working, please let me know. For now it'll do.

<_< Printing from Guitar Pro 5

**EDIT: Some of the below statements aren't true. I actually did make progress with printing in GP5, but only got as far as getting thrown an error message about stndin on the printer from kjobviewer. So the print is sent to the computers printer, but quickly gets nixed.

EDIT #2 Riddle me this, I created a directory within .wine/PF/GP5 called Tabs for the tabs, and I was just looking in there and it has these files which are the names from the registry entries I was messing with from wine, full of data, and apparently post script from what I can see. So it appears that GP5 is redirecting on its own, hmmm and apparently it is wanting to print to the same directory the original file was opened from. There's got to be a work around there someplace.

Wine I could use a few bottles after trying to get printed music from GP5. I found absolutely no way to get the printer to work directly from GP5, I edited the registry 100's of different ways, then a brainstorm, try printing from another windows program, so I open notepad in wine type hello and go to print and it prints no problem.

The work around I've got to work is export the musical score from gp5 while running under wine to a bitmap .bmp file, I then opened it with whatever other linux program "Gwenview" and print it out, seems to think the bmp is to big for the paper, and asks if you want to shrink so it doesn't utilize all the paper but it's legable, the notes are there and it does what I want it too.

I'd appreciate if anyone does get the print function working, please let me know. For now it'll do.
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Print does occur with the print filters turned off, only postscript jibbajabbah is on the page. So that means something else .... cups has been clustered and trying to repair, from changing settings via yast2 and kde separately won't be trying that anymore after it's fixed. Maybe there will be a mime type and conversion issue too.