[Wine] Re: printing issue with notepad and some other apps

[Duane Clark]

Stefan Munz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> while installing some windows apps I stumbled about a problem that even shows 
> up in Wine's notepad implementation:
> 
> If I try to print with notepad, it uses a very big font (about 16pt I guess). 
> I can change the font in notepad. I tried to copy my windows fonts 
> into .wine/drive_c/windows/fonts. But only the font on the display changes, 
> the print-out stays exactly the same. 
> Another thing what I think is related to the above problem is, that the paper 
> size isn't calculated correct. My text is just cut off at the right end of 
> the paper. No line-break is made. It looks like Wine thinks that my paper is 
> just a bit wider than it really is. 
> (A pdf doc with a print-out is a attached)
> 
> The same two problems show up with some other apps that I use (but there is no 
> download/demo version available). 
> 
> I tried Wine version 0.9.19, 0.9.17 and 0.9, compiled from source under 
> kubuntu and the 0.9 binary. ( I already tried a new .wine dir/ run 
> wineprefixcreate).

If you compile from source, you probably need to make sure you have 
fontforge installed, else the Wine supplied fonts will not be installed 
or used. To see whether they were, you could check the directory 
/usr/local/share/wine/fonts (that is the default location).

Are you sure you tried testing with 0.9.19? With that version, you 
should be able to change the font in notepad, and the printer font will 
change (though it becomes way too small for me). Versions prior to 
0.9.18 would indeed not change the printer font.

The real problem is that I really don't know the right way to write 
printer code. Mainly I threw together a quick hack in notepad awhile 
back, because we were getting a rash of people who complained printing 
in Wine didn't work, because they were testing with notepad. What it 
really needs is someone who knows what they are doing, and willing to 
spend a small amount of time on it. Lines don't wrap during printing 
because the printer code makes no attempt to do so. It probably would 
not be difficult to add that.

Also, there is a wine developer working on a revamping of the Wine 
printer code itself. Hopefully some of that will make it's way into Wine 
sometime soon.