[Wine] Printing/Creating PDF Files

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Thu Feb 28 11:45:10 CST 2008


On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Juan Largo <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>  This is my first post here.  I'm trying to create PDF files from other
> applications running in Wine 0.9.56.  I've installed Autosketch Release 5
> and Adobe Acrobat Writer V4.0 in Wine (in that order).
> Each of these programs work well in Wine by themselves,

Yay!

> but I can't figure out how to get Autosketch to use Adobe Writer
> to create PDF files.

I haven't tried it, but some say that cups-pdf will do this for you.
What Linux distro are you using, btw?  And is it 32 or 64 bits?
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-138507.html
http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/03/23/print-to-pdf-using-cups-pdf/
The thread at
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/2007-July/027517.html
suggests trouble if you're running 64 bit linux.

Windows-based pdf printer drivers ought to work eventually,
but I'm not enough of a printer guy to know if they work now.
The question's come up before:
http://mepislovers.org/forums/showthread.php?p=110767
http://www.mepislovers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=7230

- Dan



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