Hi, I have a problem setting up printing with Wine 20030115 under Debian Woody/testing.
I am using wine to access office2000 under win98 beeing installed in a different partition. In Windows there is only a fax and a thumb pdf printer installed (so there is no native windows printer, I could not find out from the docs, whether it is necessary to install a printer in windows, in order to use it wine printing).
Further on my linux system I use lprn printing with only network printers...
What I would like to have would be a general postscript printer printing to a file or to a directory in /tmp/printer or whatever. Can anyone help me with that? And yes I have read the manuals and some postings but I really could not get wine to even show a printer!
As I understand this, you should already have:
[spooler] "FILE:" = "tmp.ps" "LPT1:" = "|lpr"
in your config file. This will print to your default printer.
NOTE: you can delete the next two lines -- I don't know why they are there.
Then you need a PPD file. You can get the one for your printer or use the: "generic.ppd" file which should be in: "documentation/samples/" and edit it for things like default paper size and default resolution. You might need to add some resolutions. The file looks like a real mess, but it isn't that hard to understand. If you need to change the printable area, the dimensions are in points and are x,y for upper left then x,y for lower left.
You should put the PPD file in "~/.wine".
Then if you look in: "system.reg" for a line:
"PPD File"="/unix/path/to/PPD/file"
and edit it with your path to the PPD file:
/home/<usr>/.wine/generic.ppd
And that should do it.
If this works, there is a 'print to file' option in the print widget.
-- JRT
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