May 2012, Adobe Illustrator CS6
Version 16.x of the professional vector graphics program by Adobe Systems.
Application Details:
Version: | CS6 (16) |
License: | Shareware |
URL: | http://www.adobe.com/products/... |
Votes: | Marked as obsolete |
Latest Rating: | Silver |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 6.16 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
I tested most of the basic tools like selection, text, brushes, colors and transformations
What does not
The icons were rendered incorrectly in the UI. I'd bet theres a fix but i haven't looked that far into it yet. Also you cannot get the illustrator updates that would normally be available on windows.
Workarounds
I installed from the adobe CS6 cd using a serial key. I was able to install photoshop, indesign, illustrator, bridge, and fireworks with most things working out of the box. Adobe acrobat pro failed to install.
Use winetricks in gui mode and install:
winetricks atmlib corefonts gdiplus msxml3 msxml4 msxml6 vcrun2005 vcrun2008 vcrun2010 d3dx9 flash. Make sure to do the msxml and vcrun in order.
I was having issues with winetricks command line mode where it wouldn't install msxml3 and vcrun2008 correctly on a 64bit wineprefix.
What was not tested
I didn't test the photoshop filters, or bitmap rasternization tools. I mainly tested the tools that the typical SVG uses more people would care about when using illustrator.
I also did not test any of the advanced color profile or printing features.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Its really a between silver or gold rating. Its not "better than on windows", but considering I was able to install it from a cd with most of the other adobe software working as well right out of the box it deserves a gold rating.
With some trinkering from someone who knows wine better than I do it could easily achieve a gold to platinum rating.
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Show | Manjaro Linux 21.1 | Sep 11 2021 | 6.16 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Silver | YX | |
Show | Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Oct 10 2019 | 4.0.2 | Yes | No | No | Garbage | Franco | |
Current | Arch Linux | Apr 03 2019 | 4.5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Sean | |
Show | Fedora 27 x86_64 | Feb 03 2018 | 3.0-rc6-staging | No, but has workaround | No | Yes | Garbage | Vlad | |
Show | Gentoo Linux x86_64 | Aug 06 2017 | 2.13 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | Benny Profane |
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by YX on Saturday September 11th 2021, 10:39
Arch / Manjaro:
sudo pacman -S wine winetricks
Debian / Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install wine winetricks
Install winetricks packages:
winetricks atmlib gdiplus msxml3 msxml6 vcrun2005 vcrun2005sp1 vcrun2008 ie6 fontsmooth-rgb gecko allfonts
Execute your Adobe Illustrator CS6 installation file ("Setup.exe"):
wine Setup.exe
Now you should be able to execute Adobe Illustrator:
wine start "/home/USER/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Illustrator CS6 (64 Bit)/Adobe Illustrator CS6 (64 Bit).lnk"
by Simon Lidster on Wednesday August 14th 2013, 20:33
Linux Mint Nadia.
Everything else seems fine.
by Simon Lidster on Wednesday August 14th 2013, 21:17
It seems to be confusing file and folders.
I found that one save DID work but it saved as the folder name it was saving to and renamed the folder XXXXX.tmp.
by GameX on Monday March 25th 2013, 17:18
In my case, it cause a crash !
by Graben on Monday March 25th 2013, 17:24
I'm using wine 1.5.24 on fedora 17 x64
by GameX on Monday March 25th 2013, 17:31
I ran it with Wine 1.5.18 (Splash screen display weird on higher versions) using PlayOnLinux. I've tried using Wine 1.5.3, but I get the same problem (x86 Illustrator, on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x64).
This has to be because I run a portable version.. I've tried many times activating a full install, but I never managed to do it.
by Graben on Monday March 25th 2013, 17:39
What I did first is keep the demo version and re-install it after 30 days to get the demo again.
Then I tried activating it with my serial because I got tired of reinstalling it every 30 days. It did not work in my case, thought it should now with wine 1.5.24. There is something that does not works when the activation process is trying to connect to adobe servers.
Then since I was left with only this option, i downloaded a cracked atmlib.dll and patched it. It then works and is activated as it should have been with my serial.
Installing illustrator in wine did crash a couples versions ago, but you only had to copy files over from a windows install and it worked. the wine windows registry was OK. I think new versions of wine are working for the install thought some had reported problems but im not sure...
by GameX on Monday March 25th 2013, 17:44
I'll try to copy an installation.
by Graben on Monday March 25th 2013, 17:47
by GameX on Monday March 25th 2013, 18:03
I've tried copying my install from a Adobe Master Collection CS6 installer (I've installed only Illustrator), but I guess I was a bit rushed, I'll try again.
On the top of my mind, guess I need to copy these files:
Program Files (x86)/Adobe/*
Program Files (x86)/Common Files/Adobe/*
Doc and Settings/Gamex/Application Data/Adobe/*
And maybe WinSxS?
Thanks!
by paddy p on Tuesday May 14th 2013, 9:57
by GameX on Monday March 25th 2013, 17:36
If it crash, I'm going to try again with copying a full install from a Windows XP virtual machine.
by Joe Wong on Friday January 18th 2013, 16:26
Program Files/Adobe
Program Files/Common Files
ProgramData
by Joe Wong on Friday January 18th 2013, 16:29
users/your name/AppData
windows/System32
windows/winsxs
First run takes the longest. I think it needs to update the registry and all. Once done loading you can close it and relaunch it.
by nowashburn on Tuesday September 4th 2012, 18:14
fixme:shell:PathYetAnotherMakeUniqueName (0x4f5bc0, L"C:\\adobeTemp\\backup", L"tmp" ,L"adobetmp000527228"):stub.
fixme:advapi:SetNamedSecurityInfoW L"C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Adobe\\Adobe PCD" 1 -2147483644 0x1f7674 0x1f7680 0x1e5888 (nil)
fixme:advapi:SetNamedSecurityInfoW L"C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Adobe\\Adobe PCD\\cache" 1 -2147483644 0x1f7674 0x1f7680 0x1e5888 (nil)
fixme:advapi:SetNamedSecurityInfoW L"C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Adobe\\caps" 1 -2147483644 0x1f7674 0x1f7680 0x1e5888 (nil)
fixme:advapi:SetNamedSecurityInfoW L"C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Adobe\\Adobe PCD" 1 -2147483644 0x1f7674 0x1f7680 0x1e5888 (nil)
fixme:advapi:SetNamedSecurityInfoW L"C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Adobe\\Adobe PCD\\cache" 1 -2147483644 0x1f7674 0x1f7680 0x1e5888 (nil)
fixme:advapi:SetNamedSecurityInfoW L"C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Adobe\\caps" 1 -2147483644 0x1f7674 0x1f7680 0x1e5888 (nil)
fixme:advapi:SetNamedSecurityInfoW L"C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Adobe\\caps" 1 -2147483644 0x1f7674 0x1f7680 0x1e5888 (nil)
Any suggestions?
by nowashburn on Tuesday September 4th 2012, 18:17
by Graben on Tuesday September 4th 2012, 18:40
Illustrator CS6 Installer script
by Graben on Thursday August 2nd 2012, 7:30
It did the same thing for me. You have to install the illustrator demo version in windows and copy the files in c:/program files/Adobe over to your wine bottle.
The installer on wine crashes without even installing the Illustrator.exe file...
Please try following my instructions and running the provided script and carefully following instructions there... it has been working for me since wine 1.5.3 and it is still working on wine 1.5.11
If you have troubles making it work, just comment this post and I'll help you make it work.
by nowashburn on Tuesday September 18th 2012, 13:40
p11-kit: couldn't load module: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x110000 0 0x32fd5c 4
by nowashburn on Tuesday September 18th 2012, 17:53
WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine winecfg
Then, I moved my files over to the new wine directory and not only Illustrator, but Photoshop and Flash CS6 all work nicely. Thank you WINE community!
by Graben on Thursday August 2nd 2012, 7:40
If you face those problems, simply use the real NVidia driver, this one does not have those bugs.
by Graben on Thursday August 2nd 2012, 7:30
To make it work, you need 4 things :
1. The trial version of illustrator CS6 you can download at : www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=illustrator
Only the 32bit version seem to work. Place the files you downloaded in the folder you want, change downloadPath variable in the script accordingly.
2. The c:/program files (x86)/Adobe folder with all its content from a windows install. Copy the Adobe folder in a folder named "unpacked_files" located in the $downloadPath folder.
3. Winetricks. If you never installed msxml3, start by downloading msxml3 package at this address : download.cnet.com/Microsoft-XML-Parser-MSXML-3-0-Service-Pack-7-SP7/3000-7241_4-10731613.html
4. the aiinstall.sh script. Copy the file content below and create your aiinstall.sh file. Do not forget to right-click properties, go to permissions tab and check "Allow executeing file as a program". Change the lines that begin with wineBottlePath and downloadPath to match the paths where you want the install script to check for the Adobe Illustrator CS6 trial download files and the path where you want your Illustrator to be installed.
---------------------------------------------------------
How to install Illustrator CS6 in Wine :
1. Run the following script. IMPORTANT: run the script as a regular user not as root.
2. Click next and continue to all windows dialogs that appears during the process.
2. When running Set-Up.exe (Illustrator setup), it will ask you if you want to run the trial or the full version if you have a serial. Choose run full version and enter any serial good or bad it does not matter. The install program ask for internet connection which you have but the installer does not see it, click connect later.... Let the installer run a long time after it display a message saying "Installation Failed. Your installation encountered errors". The installer it is installing Illustrator in the background for real even if it does not seem so.
This is my shell script to install Illustrator CS6 : Adapt it to your needs :
#/bin/bash
# Change the following line to the path to the wine bottle you want to
# use to install illustrator in it.
wineBottlePath=$HOME/.wb/ai
# Change the following line to the path to the folder where you placed
# Set-Up.exe and the rest of the Adobe Illustrator CS6 download.
downloadPath=$HOME/.wb/aii
###############################################################################
###Do not change anything below ###############################################
###############################################################################
#Check if you run this script as root, and exits if yes.
if [[ $UID -eq 0 ]]; then
echo "$0 must not be run as root"
exit 1
fi
# Check if you have downloaded msxml3 and placed it where it has to be in
# order for the adobe illustrator installer to work.
FILE=$HOME/.cache/winetricks/msxml3/msxml3.msi
if [ ! -f $FILE ]; then
echo "MSXML3 binaries were not found in $HOME/.cache/winetricks/msxml3. Please download msxml3.msi from download.cnet.com/Microsoft-XML-Parser-MSXML-3-0-Service-Pack-7-SP7/3000-7241_4-10731613.html, place it in $HOME/.cache/winetricks/msxml3, then re-run this script."
exit
fi
export WINEPREFIX=$wineBottlePath
rm -R $wineBottlePath
mkdir -p $wineBottlePath
winetricks msxml3 vcrun2008 vcrun2010
wine $downloadPath/Set-up.exe
winetricks atmlib gdiplus allfonts
#Copying C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe from a windows install...
cp -R $downloadPath/unpacked_files/* $wineBottlePath/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)
echo "Illustrator CS6 is now installed. To run Illustrator CS6 now, run this in gnome-temrinal : env WINEPREFIX=$wineBottlePath wine $wineBottlePath/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Adobe/Adobe\ Illustrator\ CS6/Support\ Files/Contents/Windows/Illustrator.exe"
exit 0;
by Werewolf22 on Saturday August 4th 2012, 4:45
err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x80070005 creating output file L"Z:\\home\\c001os\\.local\\share\\icons\\hicolor\\256x256\\apps\\51BE_Adobe Extension Manager CS6.0.png"
err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x80070005 creating output file L"Z:\\home\\c001os\\.local\\share\\icons\\hicolor\\256x256\\apps\\2CBC_Bridge.0.png"
err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x80070005 creating output file L"Z:\\home\\c001os\\.local\\share\\icons\\hicolor\\256x256\\apps\\981F_ExtendScript Toolkit.0.png"
err:menubuilder:InvokeShellLinker failed to build the menu
err:menubuilder:InvokeShellLinker failed to build the menu
err:menubuilder:InvokeShellLinker failed to build the menu
by Werewolf22 on Saturday August 4th 2012, 4:59
ITS WORKING! The installation finished, and Illustrator is RUNNING! This is a big step for Linux! The 1.5.10 wine failed, but is downgraded to 1.5.5 and its worked!
by Graben on Saturday August 4th 2012, 5:02
For me Flash CS6, Photoshop CS6 and Illustrator CS6 were the only apps that kept me on windows...
by Fibbles on Saturday October 20th 2012, 12:37
By default Wine seems to have anti-aliased text switched off. This is fine for most things but in Illustrator the text in the drop down menus is unreadable.
To fix this you need to edit the windows registry. Navigate to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] and add this;
"FontSmoothing"="2"
"FontSmoothingType"=dword:00000002
"FontSmoothingGamma"=dword:00000578
"FontSmoothingOrientation"=dword:00000001
by liberate on Tuesday October 30th 2012, 18:57
may be you have ideas what can be wrong?
I’m thankful for every advice))
Greets
Igor
by Graben on Wednesday October 31st 2012, 7:37
end WINEPREFIX=/home/mywinebottledirectory winetricks msxml3 vcrun2008 vcrun2010
Replace /home/mywinebottledirectory with the path to your wine bottle you are trying to install illustrator into. Make sure to install illustrator in its own wine bottle, do not reuse another wine bottle.
And check if it gives you any error saying cannot find some file... Microsoft moved a lot of packages lately and this makes many winetricks not working anymore.
I am running Fedora 17x64 with wine 1.5.13 and its working since wine 1.5.4 at least (if i remember well this is the first wine version I tested this script on I think).
by Artdes on Sunday September 28th 2014, 8:11
by Graben on Sunday September 28th 2014, 9:41
#/bin/bash
# Change the following line to the path to the wine bottle you want to
# use to install illustrator in it.
wineBottlePath=$HOME/.wb
illustratorBottle=$wineBottlePath/IllustratorCS6
# Change the following line to the path to the folder where you placed
# Set-Up.exe and the rest of the Adobe Illustrator CS6 download.
downloadPath=$wineBottlePath/Setup/Adobe_Illustrator_CS6
###############################################################################
###Do not change anything below ###############################################
###############################################################################
# Check if you run this script as root, and exits if yes.
if [[ $UID -eq 0 ]]; then
echo "#####################################################################"
echo "This script must not be run as root."
echo "Please run this script as a regular user."
exit 1
fi
# Check if winetricks is installed in /usr/bin. If not, download it and put it in usr/bin.
winetricksPath=/usr/bin/winetricks
if [ ! -f $winetricksPath ]; then
wget winetricks.org/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks
su -c "cp ./winetricks /usr/bin"
fi
if [ ! -f $winetricksPath ]; then
echo "#####################################################################"
echo "This script needs winetricks."
echo "Please install winetricks in /usr/bin first and re-run this script."
exit 1
fi
# Check if illustrator installer files are present
setupPath="$downloadPath/Illustrator_16_LS16/Adobe Illustrator CS6/Set-up.exe"
if [ ! -f $setupPath ]; then
echo "#####################################################################"
echo "Please download and extract this file in $downloadPath :"
echo "trials2.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/ILST/16/win32/Illustrator_16_LS16.7z"
echo "And make sure the Set-up.exe file is in the following folder: $downloadPath/Illustrator_16_LS16/Adobe Illustrator CS6"
exit 1
fi
#Backup file extensions that were there before this script...
cp ~/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-* $downloadPath/wineextensions/
export WINEPREFIX=$illustratorBottle
rm -R $illustratorBottle
mkdir -p $illustratorBottle
# Check if you have downloaded msxml3 and placed it where it has to be in
# order for the adobe illustrator installer to work.
FILE=$HOME/.cache/winetricks/msxml3/msxml3.msi
if [ ! -f $FILE ]; then
winetricks msxml3
if [ ! -f $FILE ]; then
echo "#####################################################################"
echo "MSXML3 binaries were not found in $HOME/.cache/winetricks/msxml3"
echo "Please download msxml3.msi from this address :"
echo "download.cnet.com/Microsoft-XML-Parser-MSXML-3-0-Service-Pack-7-SP7/3000-7241_4-10731613.html"
echo "Place the downloaded file in $HOME/.cache/winetricks/msxml3, "
echo "and run this script again."
exit 1;
fi
fi
winetricks vcrun2008 vcrun2010
wine "$setupPath"
wineserver --wait
# Check if you have downloaded gdiplus and placed it where it has to be in
# order for the adobe illustrator installer to work.
FILE=$HOME/.cache/winetricks/gdiplus/NDP1.0sp2-KB830348-X86-Enu.exe
if [ ! -f $FILE ]; then
winetricks gdiplus
if [ ! -f $FILE ]; then
echo "#####################################################################"
echo "GDIPLUS binaries were not found in $HOME/.cache/winetricks/gdiplus. Please download NDP1.0sp2-KB830348-X86-Enu.exe from download.cnet.com/NET-Framework-1-0-GDIPLUS-DLL-Security-Update/3000-10250_4-10732223.html, place it in $HOME/.cache/winetricks/gdiplus, then re-run this script."
exit
fi
fi
winetricks atmlib
wineserver --wait
#Copying C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe from a windows install...
cp -R $downloadPath/unpacked_files/* $illustratorBottle/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)
#Removing all wine extensions, and add only .AI and .EPS and the extensions you had already installed before this script run.
rm ~/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-*
cp $downloadPath/wineextensions/* ~/.local/share/applications
echo "Illustrator CS6 is now installed. To run Illustrator CS6 now, run this in gnome-terminal : env WINEPREFIX=$illustratorBottle wine $illustratorBottle/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Adobe/Adobe\ Illustrator\ CS6/Support\ Files/Contents/Windows/Illustrator.exe"
exit 0;
Then, you need to copy these folders form a windows install to your wine bottle :
c:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe
c:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files
c:\users\\Application Data\Adobe
c:\users\\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe
The last 2 folders might not be needed... but just in case you can copy them too.
I used a 64 bits wine bottle, but a 32 bit illustrator install.
Then you need to export this key from your windows registry to the wine bottle registry :
HKLM\Software\Adobe
It should all work now.
by Graben on Sunday September 28th 2014, 9:44
c:\users\yourusername\Application Data\Adobe
c:\users\yourusername\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe
The comment box removed the yourusername part...