Campaign Cartographer

What works

• Installation (With one minor bug that requires manual intervention, see HOWTO below)
• Loading/Saving/Exporting/printing
• Starting a new map
• Addons (Dungeon Designer, Symbols Set 1 & 2, Cartographers Annual)
  
• All tested drawing functions
• Symbol Catalogs and Master Filters
• Changing program preferences
• Command line commands
• Fill Styles
• Both PNG and Vector Symbols
• Toolbars
• Everything else that were tested, except as noted below

What does not

• Font Sizes. The font face displays correct, but some fonts display smaller and some larger than on Windows. This can cause some small issues when sharing maps with Windows users.
• Help files. These are in .chm format, which is not supported by default by wine. It should be possible to install a chm viewer inside wine, but I haven't tried this. It is also easy to display them in a graphical frontend (like GnoCHM) to the linux chmlib library, thus running them natively.
  
• Sometimes the map window doesn't display on a new/load. To get it to display, you'll have to do a restore and then a maximize on the main CC3 window, and the drawing window should appear normally.
• The software runs a bit slower than on windows. This doesn't make it unusable, but it is noticeable.

Workarounds

What was not tested

• CC3 has a large amount of different drawing functions. I haven't had time to test absolutely all of them

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

If not for the font issue, this program would have gotten a Platinum rating.

Note. This used to be the procedure to get CC3 to work, but under recent Wine version, I cannot get it to install at all any more. Hopefully this will change in the future.

1. Make sure you have the most updated installers from ProFantasy. These are available from your order page. This is especially important, because the older installers relied somewhat on .net, which doesn't work very well with Wine. ProFantasy have created new installers for all their components, that no longer relies on any .net version
2. Install CC3 using the installer.
3. Install the latest patch (Available from your registration page, currently version 3.42 [Update 10]). Note that this will produce an error message about the C++ runtime not finding an installation directory. This error is not critical, but some of the effects relies on these libraries, and will not work. Most effects work however.
   
4. Install any add-on you might own
5. Install the latest patch again.
6. Run CC3. Everything should work properly.­

When opening existing maps, you'll find that the fonts don't render the same size as on Windows.

This can be fixed by changing the font properties of the existing text in the map and unchecking the 'Use New Metrics' option. This should cause the fonts to render the same size (extremely close anyway) as they did on Windows, and they'll still display fine if you open that map in Windows.

You should obviously keep this option off for any new text you place if you want to be able to open the map in Windows and have it look the same.

Thanks to CSANecromancer in the ProFantasy forums for this tip.