Re: Printing under Wine - Mission Impossible?

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Duane,

Thanks! That solved the problem for me. My printing
system now works great in both Linix and Wine.

Kevin



--- Duane Clark <dclark@akamail.com> wrote:
> Kevin DeKorte wrote:
> > Some more information about my printing problems.
> > 
> > I completely removed LPRgn and CUPS from my
> laptop. I
> > then reinstalled basic CUPS none of the
> cups-drivers
> > rpms.
> > 
> > I then configured my CUPS setup and got Linux apps
> > printing (open office etc...)
> > 
> > I then edited my win.ini in my winroot/c/windows
> and
> > removed all the printers from there.
> > 
> > I opened up Lotus Notes in wine and tried to
> print. I
> > was able to get a print out, before it crashed my
> > printer, but the fonts were all mangled. So I
> renamed
> > my wineroot/c/windows/Fonts directory to something
> > else and reloaded Notes. I no had no anti-aliased
> > fonts in Wine. But when I printed I got a nice
> clean
> > printout that I expected. I renamed the Fonts
> > directory back and got my antialiased fonts back,
> but
> > the print out was corrupted.
> > 
> > So I have a choice I guess nice screen fonts or
> nice
> > print fonts but not both... argh!
> 
> This is a known problem. To quote Ian Pilcher:
> > You need to edit the PPD file that Wine is using
> for your printer, and
> > change
> > 
> >     *TTRasertizer: Type42
> > 
> > to
> > 
> >     *TTRasteriser: None
> > 
> > This will force the PostScript driver to embed
> fonts as Type1 (which
> > works), rather than Type42 (which doesn't).
> > 
> 
> The ppd files should be in /etc/cups/ppd/.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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