[Wine] Re: Newbie Problem: need Windows Printer Driver?

[Darren Wilkinson]

rainer wrote:
> Hi friends
> 
> I just started using wine on my Linux-machine. Mostly because I want to
> switch finally from Windows to Linux on my computer at work. There is just
> one single application I want to "take with me" and that is "GraphPad
> Prism" (http://www.graphpad.com/prism/Prism.htm).
> So I installed  wine0.9.20 on my Mandriva2007. Then I used wine to install
> Prism in its most recent version. Everythings fine, Prism starts, but I
> cant open any old file or even blank cheets.
> A quick google-research showed me that Graphpad knows the Problem (or a
> similar one (http://www.graphpad.com/faq/viewfaq.cfm?faq=815):
> 
> -- Quote:
> Whenever you create a new file or open an existing one, Prism communicates
> with the printer driver to get information about page size and margins. A
> bug in a few printer drivers causes Prism to crash at this point. Prism can
> also crash if your default printer is a network printer that is not
> available.
> ...
> Also note that Prism 4 does need to find some printer driver. If you are
> running a computer that is not connected to any printer, that's OK, but you
> have to choose a printer driver anyway to make Prism 4 happy. You don't
> need a printer itself, just install and choose a driver (any one will do).
> -- Endquote
> 
> So it seems, that Prism is running OK, but has a problem with the (missing)
> printerdriver. I tried Wordpad, which is printing quiet fine, so the build
> in driver is working, but Prism can't see it or something :-)
> 
> Most of the tutorials in the net are describing how to print at all or to
> print with a special printer, but I couldn't find anything that describes
> how to show the emulated application a "windows"-printerdriver.
> I installed the driver for my printer (Brother HL-1430) via the driver-CD
> and the setup there, but that did not work.
> 
> perhaps somebody here can point me i the right direction?
> 
> thanks
> Rainer
> 
> 

This looks like something you should put in the Bugzilla database. That might 
get a better response there.