New printing concept of wine

[Ian Pilcher]

Marcus Roeckrath wrote:
> 
> 1.
> 
> How can I make another printer as default printer different from
> the first one from /etc/printcap.
> 
You can't.

> 2.
> 
> How can I exclude some /etc/printcap printers from scanning by wine?
> 
You can't.

> Does it make sense to define printcap printers like ascii (my hp ps
> printer has three entries in printcap: ascii, lp, raw) in wine?
> Printing a document on the ascii printer the wine ps output is
> printed as ps source code, which is normal for the ascii spooler,
> which will pass the spooler input thru a2ps.
> 
It doesn't make sense.  The scanning code tries to figure out if a
printer is PostScript-capable or not, but the heuristics are pretty
primitive at this point.

> 3.
> 
> From where can I get ppd files for non ps printers?
>
In general, there's no such thing.  If, however, you're using Ghost-
script to print to a non-PostScript laser printer, there's probably a
PostScript-capable variant or PostScript option that will have a PPD
file.
 
> 4.
> 
> Why does the former installed Wine PostScript Driver does not work
> anymore?
> 
What do you mean?

The great to-do list in the sky includes adding a check for a [ppd] file
entry in the Wine config file; if it isn't there, /etc/printcap scanning
will be disabled, and you will have to set up Wine printers the "old
fashioned" way.  Would this work for you?

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