Hi friends I just started using wine on my Linux-machine. Mostly because I want to switch finally from Windows to Linux on my computer at work. There is just one single application I want to "take with me" and that is "GraphPad Prism" (http://www.graphpad.com/prism/Prism.htm). So I installed wine0.9.20 on my Mandriva2007. Then I used wine to install Prism in its most recent version. Everythings fine, Prism starts, but I cant open any old file or even blank cheets. A quick google-research showed me that Graphpad knows the Problem (or a similar one (http://www.graphpad.com/faq/viewfaq.cfm?faq=815): -- Quote: Whenever you create a new file or open an existing one, Prism communicates with the printer driver to get information about page size and margins. A bug in a few printer drivers causes Prism to crash at this point. Prism can also crash if your default printer is a network printer that is not available. ... Also note that Prism 4 does need to find some printer driver. If you are running a computer that is not connected to any printer, that's OK, but you have to choose a printer driver anyway to make Prism 4 happy. You don't need a printer itself, just install and choose a driver (any one will do). -- Endquote So it seems, that Prism is running OK, but has a problem with the (missing) printerdriver. I tried Wordpad, which is printing quiet fine, so the build in driver is working, but Prism can't see it or something :-) Most of the tutorials in the net are describing how to print at all or to print with a special printer, but I couldn't find anything that describes how to show the emulated application a "windows"-printerdriver. I installed the driver for my printer (Brother HL-1430) via the driver-CD and the setup there, but that did not work. perhaps somebody here can point me i the right direction? thanks Rainer
Daniel Skorka
2007-Mar-19 18:10 UTC
[Wine] Re: Newbie Problem: need Windows Printer Driver?
rainer <gemauer@web.de> wrote:> Most of the tutorials in the net are describing how to print at all or to > print with a special printer, but I couldn't find anything that describes > how to show the emulated application a "windows"-printerdriver. > I installed the driver for my printer (Brother HL-1430) via the driver-CD > and the setup there, but that did not work.Trying to install a windows driver under wine is pointless. If you have CUPS correctly set up, your printer should be available under wine. If you compile wine yourself, you will need to have the CUPS development package installed at compile time. Daniel
rainer wrote:> Hi friends > > I just started using wine on my Linux-machine. Mostly because I want to > switch finally from Windows to Linux on my computer at work. There is just > one single application I want to "take with me" and that is "GraphPad > Prism" (http://www.graphpad.com/prism/Prism.htm). > So I installed wine0.9.20 on my Mandriva2007. Then I used wine to install > Prism in its most recent version. Everythings fine, Prism starts, but I > cant open any old file or even blank cheets. > A quick google-research showed me that Graphpad knows the Problem (or a > similar one (http://www.graphpad.com/faq/viewfaq.cfm?faq=815):What kind of error messages are you getting from Wine (if any)? I am trying to see how you determined that the problem running under Wine is related to the FAQ. Just installing and trying to run the demo, I get a dialog that says "Unable to open file." whenever I try to create a new sheet.
oh sorry I forgot: tried wine as "WinXP" and the terminal output starting prism is: $ wine "C:\Program Files\GraphPad\Prism 4\prism.exe" fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc EM_SETCHARFORMAT: word selection not supported fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc EM_SETCHARFORMAT: word selection not supported fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc EM_SETCHARFORMAT: word selection not supported fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc EM_SETCHARFORMAT: word selection not supported fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc EM_SETCHARFORMAT: word selection not supported fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc EM_SETCHARFORMAT: word selection not supported fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc EM_SETCHARFORMAT: word selection not supported fixme:richedit:RichEditANSIWndProc EM_SETCHARFORMAT: word selection not supported err:ole:CoReleaseMarshalData IMarshal::ReleaseMarshalData failed with error 0x8001011d
Darren Wilkinson
2007-Mar-19 19:09 UTC
[Wine] Re: Newbie Problem: need Windows Printer Driver?
rainer wrote:> Hi friends > > I just started using wine on my Linux-machine. Mostly because I want to > switch finally from Windows to Linux on my computer at work. There is just > one single application I want to "take with me" and that is "GraphPad > Prism" (http://www.graphpad.com/prism/Prism.htm). > So I installed wine0.9.20 on my Mandriva2007. Then I used wine to install > Prism in its most recent version. Everythings fine, Prism starts, but I > cant open any old file or even blank cheets. > A quick google-research showed me that Graphpad knows the Problem (or a > similar one (http://www.graphpad.com/faq/viewfaq.cfm?faq=815): > > -- Quote: > Whenever you create a new file or open an existing one, Prism communicates > with the printer driver to get information about page size and margins. A > bug in a few printer drivers causes Prism to crash at this point. Prism can > also crash if your default printer is a network printer that is not > available. > ... > Also note that Prism 4 does need to find some printer driver. If you are > running a computer that is not connected to any printer, that's OK, but you > have to choose a printer driver anyway to make Prism 4 happy. You don't > need a printer itself, just install and choose a driver (any one will do). > -- Endquote > > So it seems, that Prism is running OK, but has a problem with the (missing) > printerdriver. I tried Wordpad, which is printing quiet fine, so the build > in driver is working, but Prism can't see it or something :-) > > Most of the tutorials in the net are describing how to print at all or to > print with a special printer, but I couldn't find anything that describes > how to show the emulated application a "windows"-printerdriver. > I installed the driver for my printer (Brother HL-1430) via the driver-CD > and the setup there, but that did not work. > > perhaps somebody here can point me i the right direction? > > thanks > Rainer > >This looks like something you should put in the Bugzilla database. That might get a better response there.