[Wine] Printer Registry

[Brent Davidson]

The application is a custom app built in the DB/C framework.  It is a 
database application for storing scanned legal documents and associated 
index data.  The application works correctly under standard Windows XP 
and Windows 200, but when run under Wine, it will only print text 
correctly.  When it tries to print an image from the database (Stored in 
TIF format) all it prints a page that is mostly black with part of a 
white bar on the right-hand side.  At the bottom of the page below the 
image the application is supposed to print a black box with white 
background with text for the volume, page, and document date.  In the 
wine printout, this box is visible overlaid onto the solid black that is 
printed, but there is no text in the box.

Since this is a custom application written exclusively for the company I 
work for it is very hard for me to create a public version for testing.  
I need to try to troubleshoot this myself if possible.

This is no longer a critical problem as I have found an workable 
solution.  The application has the ability to construct PDF files from 
the images.  I had the developer create a version of the program that 
instead of printing just saves a PDF of what would be printed to a 
specific location on a virtual disk.  I have a perl script that monitors 
that location and sends any PDF that appears to LPR as soon as the 
program is finished writing it.  It's not the ideal solution, but it works.

Thanks,
Brent Davidson

Detlef Riekenberg wrote:
> On Mo, 2007-06-11 at 14:49 -0500, Brent Davidson wrote:
>   
>> Is there a detailed explanation of the printer setup in the registry of 
>> Modern Wine (0.9.38) ?  I can't seem to find any documentation and I'm 
>> having some weird printing problems that I would like to resolve and I 
>> think the key may be in the registry.
>>     
>
> Wine with CUPS:
>
> Find your Printers: from CUPS
> PPD-File for your Printer: from CUPS
> Print the Postscript-File: lpr
>
> Wine without CUPS:
> Find your Printers: from /etc/printcap
> PPD-File for your Printer: from the Registry; default is "generic.ppd"
>                     ( see: http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys )
> Print the Postscript-File: lpr
>
>
> Which Application is affected?
> AppDB-ID for the Application present?
> What are your printing Problems?
> Bugzilla-ID for the printing Problems present?