Every so often I bump into issues with proprietary software which is based on windoze. Trouble is I am as ignorant of their world as they are of mine! Please could somebody help me here. I shall need web access to an embedded windoze machine in a system controller. This embeded machine is referred to as the “WebEngine.” This is what I was told today:-
“The WebEngine solution uses the Adobe SVG viewer graphics plugin to render the graphics onto the webpages, this plugin was never released for Linux. There are some SVG viewers available for Linux, but whether or not they would work with a WebEngine we cannot confirm.”
and further:-
“We still require Internet explorer 9+ to view the web engine… we have tested it on a Linux (Ubuntu) pc with no joy but were able to use the default Remote desktop software installed on Ubuntu and it connects ok.”
I am using openSUSE 13.1 64 bit, KDE desktop and usually Firefox browser. Is there likely to be a suitable plugin for Firefox and if not what Remote Desktop Access should I use? Sorry I cannot give more info. Will try and get copy of this windoze software but meanwhile I do not yet have access to the software in question.
On Thu 08 Jan 2015 04:26:01 PM CST, Budgie2 wrote:
Every so often I bump into issues with proprietary software which is
based on windoze. Trouble is I am as ignorant of their world as they
are of mine! Please could somebody help me here. I shall need web
access to an embedded windoze machine in a system controller. This
embeded machine is referred to as the “WebEngine.” This is what I was
told today:-
> “The WebEngine solution uses the Adobe SVG viewer graphics plugin to
> render the graphics onto the webpages, this plugin was never released
> for Linux. There are some SVG viewers available for Linux, but whether
> or not they would work with a WebEngine we cannot confirm.”
and further:-
> “We still require Internet explorer 9+ to view the web engine… we
> have tested it on a Linux (Ubuntu) pc with no joy but were able to
> use the default Remote desktop software installed on Ubuntu and it
> connects ok.”
I am using openSUSE 13.1 64 bit, KDE desktop and usually Firefox
browser. Is there likely to be a suitable plugin for Firefox and if not
what Remote Desktop Access should I use? Sorry I cannot give more info.
Will try and get copy of this windoze software but meanwhile I do not
yet have access to the software in question.
Download the latest trial version of codeweavers crossover and install
IE9 and adobe SVG is the other thought.
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Hi Malcolm,
Many thanks. Since posting I have spoken to the distributor of the software and he admits it is near end of life, as your link would indicate. They are locked into IE although their web site says it works from any “standard browser” and newer software is still in development.
I have never tried codeweavers which I assume is like Wine. I do not have time or inclination to experiment with this so my expedient solution for now will be for me to use the one windoze machine we keep for our accounting package to access controls.
Hi
Yes codeweavers is wine with the bells and whistles to make life easier with installing stuff and getting it working. Yup, that was my other solution, just use the tools that it’s designed for… The other option is if your machine supports virtualization, just use qemu/kvm to create a windows VM on the linux machine?
Mainly two come to mind: remmina (probably the mentioned default on Ubuntu), and KRDC, both are available in the standard repos.
For remmina you might have to manually install the required plugin, depending on how to connect: remmina-plugin-vnc or remmina-plugin-rdp
Depending on whether the access works via VNC or rdesktop (Windows’ “remote desktop”, so more likely), you could also use the simpler “vncviewer” or “rdesktop” respectively.
OTOH, about the SVG viewer plugin: most (Linux) browsers should be able to display SVGs out of the box just fine.
I guess there must be a different problem then, maybe you’d need Oracle’s java, or some other (maybe proprietary) plugin that’s only available for Windows?
All of today’s latest web browsers support SVG natively. It’s an important and integral part of the revolution using HTML5 in websites today.
So, I don’t know anything about the Adobe SVG plugin except if it’s really old it’s likely only the legacy way to enable <old> IE (likely IE6) to view SVG. Even today’s current versions of IE will support SVG without needing an SVG plugin.
That said, I don’t know what website you’re trying to connect to.
If the SVG is <standard and compliant> then you should be able to view without a problem.
If FF is giving you a problem, I might recommend you try another browser like chromium (in the the OSS repo).
Hi Tsu and many thanks for the reply. The system I will be accessing has embeded windoze software which apparently only works with M$ IE. Unfortunately I do not yet have access to the hardware but was doing some prelim investigation. I will revert if we do go ahead with the system but at present we do not have budget.
The other option is if your machine supports virtualization, just use qemu/kvm to create a windows VM on the linux machine?