[Bug 921] Documentation says Wine and CUPS get along - they don't

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http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=921





------- Additional Comments From z_god at wanadoo.nl  2003-21-06 06:25 -------
Bug comments restored from Gmane.org: 
 
The documentation on Wine printing suggests that the best solution to printing 
under Wine is to use CUPS - that if you have CUPS set up, printing "just works" 
 
Wrong - Wine cannot correctly identify what printers I have under CUPS, nor can 
it configure them - in fact most attempts to manipulate print setup cause Wine 
to fault. 
 
Until Wine and CUPS actually get along, I would suggest the documentation be 
changed to reflect this. 
 
 
------- Additional Comments From marcus <at> jet.franken.de  2002-11-12 16:26 ------- 
what is wrong?  
what symptoms show that CUPS might not work correctly?  
  
can you send a trace with -debugmsg +winspool ?  
 
 
------- Additional Comments From bunk <at> fs.tum.de  2002-11-17 18:59 ------- 
Perhaps the submitter sees something similar to the error messages I see: 
 
<--  snip  --> 
 
err:psdrv:PSDRV_PPDGetNextTuple Error in line '*CloseUI *stpBrightness'? 
To use WINEPS you need to install some AFM files. 
fixme:winspool:AddPrinterW DocumentPropertiesW on printer 'L"hpdj400"' fails 
 
<--  snip  --> 
 
This is with the 20021031 Wine package in Debian unstable. I'll attach the 
output of "debugmsg +winspool". 
 
 
------- Additional Comments From bunk <at> fs.tum.de  2002-11-17 19:00 ------- 
Created an attachment (id=336)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.com/attachment.cgi?id=336&action=view) 
output of "debugmsg +winspool" 
 
 
------- Additional Comments From dclark <at> akamail.com  2002-11-17 19:37 ------- 
Unfortunately, a typo has crept into a number of CUPS ppd files. The line: 
*CloseUI *stpBrightness 
is incorrect, and should read: 
*CloseUI: *stpBrightness 
________^ 
 
Apparently the CUPS software does not care about the typo, but Wine does. Since 
this typo is so prevalent, it might be worth it for Wine to implement a 
workaround, but that bug is the fault of CUPS, not Wine. To get rid of that 
problem, just edit the PPD file and add the colon. 
 
 
------- Additional Comments From wowbagger <at> sktc.net  2002-11-17 21:29 ------- 
The last time I tried to install CUPS and then use printing under Wine (which 
was about the time I filed this bug, so things may have changed), any attempt to 
access the printing function of a Windows app running under Wine would cause 
Wine to segfault. 
 
I was told (in the Winedev mailing list) that the problem was that the PPD files 
that CUPS returned to Wine were not in a format that Wine could understand, and 
that was causing the fault. 
 
I then pointed out (in Winedev) that the documentation said that printing under 
Wine with CUPS "just worked" and that in fact it did not "just work". 
 
I was told to file a bug, and I did. 
 
Now, since I got fed up with several of the things that CUPS did to my printing 
services just under normal Linux, I removed it and went back to LPDng. Since I 
have no intention of trying CUPS again (since what I have works) I cannot check 
if the problems have been fixed or not. 

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