WINE Printing: Couldn't open ppd file; Couldn't find PPD file

[Larry Merritt-Gilbert]

gilbertl at haulpak.com (Larry Merritt-Gilbert) wrote in message news:<b53f68da.0110151104.1cd01947 at posting.google.com>...
> I am running wine version 20010824 and have been trying to get
> printing to work.  I am running wine on a Slackware 8.0 box with the
> 2.4.7 kernel.
> 
> Command:
> wine -debugmsg +psdrv excel.exe
> 
> Result:
> 
> ---snip
> trace:psdrv:PSDRV_Init (0x41422000, 0x00000002, (nil))
> trace:psdrv:PSDRV_Init (0x41422000, 0x00000003, (nil))
> FIXME:pthread_rwlock_rdlock
> FIXME:pthread_rwlock_unlock
> ---snip
> FIXME:pthread_rwlock_rdlock
> FIXME:pthread_rwlock_unlock
> trace:psdrv:PSDRV_Init (0x41422000, 0x00000002, (nil))
> trace:psdrv:PSDRV_Init (0x41422000, 0x00000003, (nil))
> trace:psdrv:PSDRV_FindPrinterInfo 'Wine PostScript Driver'
> trace:psdrv:PSDRV_ParsePPD c:\qmc330.ppd
> warn:psdrv:PSDRV_ParsePPD Couldn't open ppd file 'c:\qmc330.ppd'
> Couldn't find PPD file 'c:\qmc330.ppd', expect a crash now!
> trace:psdrv:PSDRV_CreateDC (WINEPS Wine PostScript Driver LPT1: (nil))
> 
> The file c:\qmc330.ppd exists, is chmod'd to 777, and is a valid ppd
> file.
> 
> Relevant lines from ~/.wine/config:
> 
> [ppd]
> "qmc330" = "/users/pca202/gilbertl/cdrive/windows/system/qmc330.ppd"
> 
> [parallelports]
> "LPT1" = "/tmp/qmc330"
> 
> [windows]
> "device" = "Wine PostScript Driver,WINEPS,LPT1:"
> 
> Relevant lines from win.ini:
> 
> [windows]
> device=Wine 
> 
> [Ports]
> LPT1:=
> LPT2:=
> LPT3:=
> COM1:=9600,n,8,1,x
> COM2:=9600,n,8,1,x
> COM3:=9600,n,8,1,x
> COM4:=9600,n,8,1,x
> FILE:=
> 
> [Devices]
> Wine PostScript Driver=WINEPS,LPT1:
> 
> [PrinterPorts]
> Wine PostScript Driver=WINEPS,LPT1:
> 
> 
> Excel runs fine, opens and saves files nicely, etc.  My only concern
> now is that I can't print.  I am pretty sure I have followed the docs
> correctly, so if I have missed something glaring, flame on.
> 
> Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

I did a cvs checkout and built it.  Now everything just works.  I love this thing.

=-=-Larry 2names