OriginPro

What works

Important: only the 32-Bit Version was successfully tested, version 2017 R2 or OriginPro.

Working well as tested so far:

• general data processing
• ASCII import
• OriginC scripting
• Non-linear curve fitting
• Digitizer / Data-Picker

Working with some restrictions:

• Image export (Vector-Graphics preview not shown, export looks nice). I had to install .NET2 to be able to launch the export dialog
• Python Scripting (works, but sometimes the runtime is not initialized correctly, leading to unrecognized functions and crashes)
• 3D Plots work, were however not intensely tested
• UI docking. The window titles of most of the tool windows are very narrow, docking is very picky about the positioning of the windows...
• Printing; I could only test using "print to file", some distortion did occur

Setup:

On 64-bit Systems, you should create a 32-bit wine prefix, i.e. by running

WINEPREFIX=$HOME/OriginApp WINEARCH='win32' wineboot

OriginLab has the option to install 32-Bit only on 64-bit systems, however, some of the requirements might not install in wine. I did not test this, however.

You should use e.g. winetricks to install dotnet20, gdiplus, msxml3 and vcrum2012. The visual C runtime is a requirement, the rest gives better performance or more functionality. msxml3 should be installed manually beforehand dotnet20, otherwise winetricks sometimes refuses to continue. The installer assumes that the software is installed on a Windows 7 or higher system, where the majority of these things is already present. Of course, winecfg is needed to set the Windows-Version to Windows 7. Strictly speaking, different .NET-versions should also work or even be used, especially because Origin 2017 depends on Windows 7. However, at the time of this report, I did not succeed in installing .NET 3 or 3.5.

Note that the setup might stall for a while at roughly 25%, but it will continue eventually after a few minutes.

Modifications:

As pointed out in "What does not work", you need to modify your Origin.ini located in the User-Data folder once you have successfully started Origin the 1st time. Otherwise, you will be presented with a nonfunctional "Origin Navigator" each start, as deactivating this dialog requires yet more MSHTML support. Simply add

[ReminderMessages]
20046=1

at the end of the file and the dialog will not show on startup. Origin tends to store translated strings in different languages / encodings in that file, so if gedit / xed etc. refuse to open it, try the internal Wine notepad or GNU nano for example.

What does not

• The 64-bit version of OriginLab. It crashes on startup, I did not have enough time to debug this so far
• Everything that requires some not yet implemented subset of MSHTML + JScript, so all Apps and features using the "HTML-Dialog" functionality. This includes the Welcome-Dialog unfortunately - it does not show any information and does also not hide. You need to modify the Origin.ini to get rid of it. As it relies on IE 9, setting the prefix to windows XP and installing IE8 does also not work.
• Database Query Generator, probably also more of the database connection (the corresponding OCX-Controls do not work but crash).

Workarounds

What was not tested

I did not do intense testing of Python or 3D support, as well as matrices. Signal processing was also not tested so far.

And probably a lot more features I might now even know about, as this App has a lot...

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

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