DLL exports... HELP?! (wine based win32 printer drivers for openprinting)

[Detlef Riekenberg]

On Mi, 2008-03-26 at 14:47 +0000, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> Wow :-). I have almost wanted to suggest such a native wine-based
> printer driver 
> as a linux foundation/openprinting GOSC project (I am one of the
> mentors under the
> openprinting umbrella
> https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Google_Summer_of_Code). 
> I am glad I didn't :-).
> 

I'm away for the weekend, but some quick notes:

- The ddiwrapper-hack works only with a very small amount of
  self-contained drivers
- Most Drivers today are plugins for the unidrv or the pscipt5 Driver
  (you can install pscript5 from Adobe since ~ 1/2 Year)
- Drivers expect dlls, that are not present in wine-2005*
  (They will not load)
- Rendering with full Drivers (Raster-Mode) need most Eng* Functions
  and Friends (This is the DIB-Engine).
- Rendering with full Drivers (Postscript) need some Eng* Functions
  and Friends.
  Nothing in this Area is implemented / exported in current Wine:
  Driver will not load
- Sending the rendered Data to the Printer need sometimes a vendor-
  specific Portmonitor / Languagemonitor
  (Not supported in current Wine)



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By by ... Detlef