wine users - Feb 2005 - adding LPT port to wine? Acrobat 5/PDFWriter installation problem

hi all,

I'm using the official wine-20041201-0.1 on Sue 9.1 (i386).  I used 
winetools 2.10 to facilitate my wine installation and it was a godsand.  I 
have installed Office 2000 and so far so good, but I like to extend my wine 
functionality just a bit more.

I like to install Acrobat 5 (not reader) with PDFWriter on my wine 
installation.  The problem I have is that, during the installation, I get 
the following error message:

"Acrobat PDFWriter requires a LPT1: printer port.  Setup could not find
this
required port.  The PDFWriter component will not be installed.  To install 
PDFWriter, add a LPT1: port and run setup again."

Can someone please tell me how to install a printer port to a wine 
installation?  I have searched quite a few documentations on this subjects 
but none of them worked.  First, I thought wine is suppose to auto-detect 
any parallel/serial port if presents.  Second, I have added a LPT entry my 
~/.wine/config under Spooler but still get the same error message.

Any help is very much appreciated,

Elvis Chen wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> I'm using the official wine-20041201-0.1 on Sue 9.1 (i386).  I used 
> winetools 2.10 to facilitate my wine installation and it was a godsand.  I 
> have installed Office 2000 and so far so good, but I like to extend my wine
> functionality just a bit more.
> 
> I like to install Acrobat 5 (not reader) with PDFWriter on my wine 
> installation.  The problem I have is that, during the installation, I get 
> the following error message:
> 
> "Acrobat PDFWriter requires a LPT1: printer port.  Setup could not
find this
> required port.  The PDFWriter component will not be installed.  To install 
> PDFWriter, add a LPT1: port and run setup again."
> 
> Can someone please tell me how to install a printer port to a wine 
> installation?  I have searched quite a few documentations on this subjects 
> but none of them worked.  First, I thought wine is suppose to auto-detect 
> any parallel/serial port if presents.  Second, I have added a LPT entry my 
> ~/.wine/config under Spooler but still get the same error message.
> 
Current versions of Wine no longer use ~/.wine/config for the lpt port 
mapping. Do "ls -al ~/.wine/dosdevices". Is there an entry that looks
like:
... lpt1 -> /dev/lp0
If not, you can add it. Do something like this:
cd ~/.wine/dosdevices
ln -s /dev/lp0 lpt1

hi,

Thank you for your quick reply.

There IS a lpt1 link in ~/.wine/dosdevices, but it was initially linked to a 
/dev devices that actually does not exist on my computer (/dev/lp0).  I 
changed it to the actual parallel port (/dev/lp1), but it still does NOT fix 
the problem.

Should I make changes to ~/.wine/config or win.ini so that wine/windows can 
see this printer port?

Thanks again,
>From: Duane Clark <dclark@akamail.com>
>To: wine-users@winehq.com
>Subject: [Wine]Re: adding LPT port to wine?  Acrobat 5/PDFWriter 
>installation problem
>Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 13:30:21 -0800
>
>Current versions of Wine no longer use ~/.wine/config for the lpt port 
>mapping. Do "ls -al ~/.wine/dosdevices". Is there an entry that
looks like:
>... lpt1 -> /dev/lp0
>If not, you can add it. Do something like this:
>cd ~/.wine/dosdevices
>ln -s /dev/lp0 lpt1

--- Elvis Chen <chene77@hotmail.com> a ?crit : 
> There IS a lpt1 link in ~/.wine/dosdevices, but it was initially linked to
a
> /dev devices that actually does not exist on my computer (/dev/lp0).  I 
> changed it to the actual parallel port (/dev/lp1), but it still does NOT
fix
> the problem.
> 
Make sure you have write rights on the actual parallel port,
PDFWriter could be trying to write to it.

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