wine users - Mar 2008 - Re: wine-0.9.56-1.fc7 . Success with Visio 5. Problems with cups

Data Rational Communic... wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am running wine-0.9.56-1.fc7 on a Fedora 7 system. I installed Visio 5
> (must be around 10 years old!). The Visio seems stable when running under
> wine, the graphics are good and I can save the vsd files under wine.
> 
> Two small problems
> 
> 1. Unable to save complex diagrams to jpg or gif. For example, there is an
> Office furniture template which includes walls, chairs and tables. The
> simple items such as walls are displayed in the gif or jpeg or png. The
more
> comples items such as chairs and tables are not visible in the exported
> format of the visio diagram.
> 
Anything in the terminal? Some areas in Wine does lack support for these
formats. Also it might have been built without support for these image formats.


Data Rational Communic... wrote:
> 2. Unable to print image to cups-pdf. I thought I would get round problem 1
> by printing the Visio image to a PDF. I installed cups-pdf under Fedora and
> this support pdf print from a "native" linux application.
However, when I
> print from Visio under Wine, and select cups-pdf as the print destination,
> the output is routed to the physical printer, rather than a pdf.
> 
This is a known problem. cups-pdf is not a "real printer", and Wine
can't work with it as-is. The only way I got anywhere with this is modifying
a printer port (see registry bellow) to be something like "|kprinter"
(KDE's print manager). This makes Wine pipe it's output through manager
where you can choose which printer to use.


Code:
[HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers\HPLaserJetIII]
Port="|kprinter"

Hi, maybe this howto (from appdb) is useful, works inmost cases for me fine:

Native alternatives for non-windows platforms

1. Install cups-pdf

2. edit /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf and put something like this:

Out ${HOME}/PDF 

instead of

Out ${DESKTOP}

in the file (otherwise i got errors like 'permission denied') 

3. When the printer-dialog (in for exampe notepad or other app) opens, choose
"Cups-pdf printer" , _DON'T_ choose "print to file" !!!,
just hit 'OK' button, and you will find your pdf-file in ~/PDf with some
kind of funny name.........