Opinions about univesal printer driver

[Ilja Kamps]

On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 02:17:41AM +0200, m.kostrzewa at pentacomp.com.pl wrote:
> I'm trying to imagine a method for using windows printer drivers under 
> linux. As far as I know, from gdi's point of view it works like:
> LoadLibrary(driver) (drv appears to be a dll),
> some of 24 DDI functions which every printer driver should contain, 
> Initialization = Enable, Control, next goes drawing functions like Output, 
> Pixel. It doesn't have to access paralell ports - it can write to file 
> (when printing under Windows you have this little checkbox, and gdi 
> initializes driver telling this filename I think). Content of this file can 
> be directly sent to port in Linux's way. I know that's not that simple, but 
> I'm very interested in your opinions: what do you think about it having 
> experience in dlling under linux :-) ? I know that wine doesn't run 
> drivers, but it can run win dlls. Is it possible at all? Or this is just a 
> linux-supports-every-printer dream? Perhaps someone tried this already? 
>
Well, Wine once supported Windows printer drivers, (I belive the support got 
broken in early 2001), but based on that you should be able to resurrect support 
without too much trouble.

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