wine users - Jun 2003 - How to configure printers (newbie question)

Hi

Just started playing with wine to run an old Window's 16 bit app
(Idealist). The app runs fine, give or take a font issue, but having
read the FAQ and docs, I cannot find any info on configuring printers so
when I go File->Print it needs to present the printer I want to print
to. I noticed some LPT commands and have a default Linux printer
(HPLJ2100) setup. So any info on how I can get the app to print would be
great.

I also tried Crossover Office and that did present the default printer,
but did not print correctly.

TIA

Peter

Peter Stokes wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Just started playing with wine to run an old Window's 16 bit app
> (Idealist). The app runs fine, give or take a font issue, but having
> read the FAQ and docs, I cannot find any info on configuring printers so
> when I go File->Print it needs to present the printer I want to print
> to. I noticed some LPT commands and have a default Linux printer
> (HPLJ2100) setup. So any info on how I can get the app to print would be
> great.
> 
Did you look at the docs?
http://www.winehq.com/Docs/wine-user/config-printing.shtml

(please respond in the newsgroup)

Peter Stokes wrote:
> Hi Duane
> 
> I am using 9.1MDK which I believe has CUPS setup and from Linux eg
> Evolution it works fine. So I guess I am missing this PPD thing, which I
> can find a hp.exe on the Adobe site, but not specifically my printer.
> Now I have a test PPD file, where do I put it etc.
CUPS has it's own PPD files, and those should be used automatically. You 
should not have to do anything with them. You only need to bother with 
PPD files if using non-CUPS printing.
> If you can help it woul be most useful. Also how to pipe output through
> to ghostscript to generate PCL output which my printer uses.
> 
If you have CUPS, then Wine prints through that. CUPS will handle piping 
through the appropriate filter (I use CUPS and a PCL printer).

In order to use CUPS, Wine needs to be compiled with CUPS support. If 
the printers do not even show up in the print dialog, then I would guess 
that you have a Wine version without CUPS support compiled in. You might 
mention where you got the version of Wine you are using.

You could try compiling yourself (really fairly easy), or get one of the 
RPMs from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6241
I am guessing those were compiled with CUPS support, though I don't 
actually know for sure. I compile from CVS.