Prism

What works

Everything I've tested so far (creating new files, editing files, making graphs, saving files, exporting figures).

What does not

Some of the taskbar buttons do not render correctly on launch, but this is fixed by mousing over them. 

Workarounds

What was not tested

Integrations (i.e. Microsoft Office, LabArchives, etc.)

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Nvidia
• Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

Installation Instructions

1. Create a 64-bit wine prefix (32-bit did not work for me).

export WINEARCH=win64
export WINEPREFIX=~/.prism8
wineboot -i

2. Install DLLs and fonts. gdiplus is required to launch the application (it crashes otherwise). msxml6 is required to read and save .pzfx files (because they contain XML headers). .pzf files work just fine without msxml6. Finally, Windows fonts are required to render text in graphs properly. If corefonts doesn't work, try allfonts or copying fonts from a Windows installation. The Arch Linux wiki has a couple good guides for this (Link 1, Link 2).

winetricks gdiplus msxml6 corefonts

3. Finally, run the 64-bit msi installer.

wine start ~/Downloads/InstallPrism8-64bit.msi