wine users - Mar 2007 - PrintMaster 7.0 *nearly*, *very* nearly printing properly

David Dawson <gobble_em_up@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have PrintMaster 7.0 Classic (I assume) and it will in fact print, which
> is more than it will do on Win XP, but Wine printing is not able to handle
> the coloured fonts correctly.
What exactly is it that is handled wrong? Are the colors a bit off? Are
they completely wrong? Are they missing completely?
Also, how do you determine this? Did you take a look at the generated
postscript, or did you look at it on paper?
In the second case, you should be aware that the printer driver also has
something to do with it.

Daniel

Daniel Skorka wrote:
 
> David Dawson <gobble_em_up@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I have PrintMaster 7.0 Classic (I assume) and it will in fact print,
>> which is more than it will do on Win XP, but Wine printing is not able
>> to handle the coloured fonts correctly.
> 
> What exactly is it that is handled wrong? Are the colors a bit off? Are
> they completely wrong? Are they missing completely?
I have attached the original card image and an output scan. I
 hope they will come through.
Or if not, email me at beagle7@shaw.ca and I will send them.
 
The transparent background shows. It is black and the foreground is white.
(on each character)
>> Also, how do you determine this? Did you take a look at the generated
>> postscript, or did you look at it on paper?
> I looked at it on paper.
>> In the second case, you should be aware that the printer driver also
has
>> something to do with it.
> Do you mean in Wine? I use CUPS for my output.
>> 
>> Daniel
> Thanks!
(I'm answering again in case the binary attachment sunk the whole message)

Thanks Daniel.
-- 
If you wrestle in the mud with a pig.
you both get dirty, and the pig likes it.

-- Dave Dawson

I have PrintMaster 7.0 Classic (I assume) and it will in fact print, which
is more than it will do on Win XP, but Wine printing is not able to handle
the coloured fonts correctly.

Is there a tweak that can be applied? By downloading a dll for instance?

The only Wine error related to printing was:

fixme:commdlg:PRINTDLG_WMCommandA No handling for print quality combo box
yet.

That didn't stop printing from happening, but coloured fonts didn't look
right on the output.

This is *so* close to being usable.
Could anybody suggest a patch for this in wine 0.9.19 ? (if needed)?

I'm not at all familiar with wine, but in this case would be willing to
debug the code a bit with some help.

Any suggestions?
Thanks

-- 
If you wrestle in the mud with a pig.
you both get dirty, and the pig likes it.

-- Dave Dawson