[K12OSN] Accelerated Reader and Star Reader programs

[Burroughs, Henry]

AR (5.12 at least) works well under Crossover Office by Codeweavers.  I believe someone else recently got it to work under a regular WINE build as well (he had problems adding students in the management module... I didn't have problems via Crossover Office 4.1).  There are some tweaks you need to do to the wine config in order to make the fonts render properly (there is a problem w/ anti-aliasing and how the text inverts from black on white to white on black when you select students/books/et), quick fix though.
 
Just search the list for crossover office and Accelerated Reader... it should show up. =)
 
Henry Burroughs
Technology Director
Hilton Head Preparatory School

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: William Parrott [mailto:wparrott at gcps1.com] 
	Sent: Fri 3/25/2005 8:06 PM 
	To: Support list for opensource software in schools. 
	Cc: 
	Subject: RE: [K12OSN] Accelerated Reader and Star Reader programs
	
	

	Ann,
	
	Are you running AR in a MAC or PC environment? I am exploring W.I.N.E.
	to see what existing apps will run from our PC environment. I was
	planning to test AR next week to see if it will run. Would be happy to
	let you know what I find out.
	
	William
	
	
	William Parrott
	Greensville County Schools
	Emporia, Virginia
	
	        >Has anyone found anything that allows you to load up
	Accelerated Reader and Star onto your Linux boxes ??
	        >That is the only hold back right now.   Any suggestions on
	solving this problem.