printing and wine

[Marcus Meissner]

In article <5368.3c053c25.dd1c9 at wine2.winehq.com>,
Bill Medland <wine-users at winehq.com> wrote:
>"Richard Canada" <richard.canada at mrlinternational.com> wrote in message
>news:3C054D3A.3020201 at mrlinternational.com...
>> Does anybody have some up-to-date instructions on getting wine to print?
>> I am trying to get Lotus Notes 5.0.6 to print, but I get no printers
>> selected. Please help!!!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Richard
>Have you managed with something simple, like notepad?
>
>I found the instructions at
>http://www.witch-westfalen.de/Wine-HOWTO/wineprintconfig.html to be very
>helpful.
>
>First make sure you can print a postscript file from Linux.
>
>Then find a suitable ppd file for your printer (that may be the hard part)
>
>Then add suitable entries to the registry
>
>Then add suitable entries to the win.ini
>
>Then test.
>
>I remember a couple of days ago someone saying that they were working on
>improving the documentation so maybe there will be some soon.

The documentation is way way outdated.

If you have CUPS, install the CUPS development headers and libraries, 
recompile WINE. WINE now automatically picks up and configures your CUPS
printers.

If you don't have CUPS, cp the sample generic.ppd file to a known location
add to your ~/.wine/config the 2 lines:

    [ppd]
    "generic" = "/where/you/put/generic.ppd"

Thats it.

Ciao, Marcus