Printing under Wine - Mission Impossible?

[Duane Clark]

Kevin DeKorte wrote:
> Some more information about my printing problems.
> 
> I completely removed LPRgn and CUPS from my laptop. I
> then reinstalled basic CUPS none of the cups-drivers
> rpms.
> 
> I then configured my CUPS setup and got Linux apps
> printing (open office etc...)
> 
> I then edited my win.ini in my winroot/c/windows and
> removed all the printers from there.
> 
> I opened up Lotus Notes in wine and tried to print. I
> was able to get a print out, before it crashed my
> printer, but the fonts were all mangled. So I renamed
> my wineroot/c/windows/Fonts directory to something
> else and reloaded Notes. I no had no anti-aliased
> fonts in Wine. But when I printed I got a nice clean
> printout that I expected. I renamed the Fonts
> directory back and got my antialiased fonts back, but
> the print out was corrupted.
> 
> So I have a choice I guess nice screen fonts or nice
> print fonts but not both... argh!

This is a known problem. To quote Ian Pilcher:
> You need to edit the PPD file that Wine is using for your printer, and
> change
> 
>     *TTRasertizer: Type42
> 
> to
> 
>     *TTRasteriser: None
> 
> This will force the PostScript driver to embed fonts as Type1 (which
> works), rather than Type42 (which doesn't).
> 

The ppd files should be in /etc/cups/ppd/.