printing

philippe briere briere at ensta.fr
Mon Apr 9 07:01:35 CDT 2001


Duane Clark a écrit :

> philippe briere wrote:
>
> > Duane Clark a écrit :
> >
> >
> >> Japie wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Hello
> >>>
> >>> As my subject already says, I want to print under wine.
> >>> Added printer=on to the conf-file, but it doesn't help.
> >>> I'am running an win311 routeplanner (my newerone doesn't work) but when I
> >>> try to print there is no printer availeble.
> >>> I tryed to find some good howto's about printing but didn't find any.
> >>> Why can't I sucseed and does corel-photopaint a perfect print-job?
> >>
> >> I don't know about printing from Photopaint. But the docs for setting up
> >> printing in wine are located in the HOWTO:
> >>
> >> http://www.la-sorciere.de/wine/index.html
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I actually tried to apply this HowTo's advice yesterday.
> > No way to print with the "simple" technique.
> > So I tried to use the Wine PostScript Drive. This drive is visible now
> > from Wordpad, but no printing neither.
> > I am using last codeweavers release and Mandrake. All this seems really fuzzy
> > to me.
> > I would appreciate some details.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Phil
>
> Yes, it is rather fuzzy. I am pretty sure that only the Wine Postscript
> driver works, and even that only works with some apps. But printing from
> wordpad works fine for me.
>
> If you see the printer in wordpad but it does not print, then I would
> check that the your win.ini file contained:
> [devices]
> Wine PostScript Driver=WINEPS,LPT1:
>
> And that your ~/.wine/config contained:
> [spooler]
> LPT1:=|lpr
>
> If you can print a postscript file from within Linux using "lpr
> file.ps", then that should work.
>
> You could also try printing to a file. The resulting file will be named
> "file:", and I never did try to figure out how to change that.
>
> --
> My real email is akamail.com at dclark (or something like that).
>

I actually found  some ppd files at :
http://www.adobe.com/products/printerdrivers/winppd.html


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