| Wine PostScript Driver |
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| When complete this will allow Wine to generate PostScript files without needing |
| an external printer driver. It should be possible to print to a non PostScript |
| printer by filtering the output through ghostscript. |
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| Installation |
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| At the moment the driver will only work for 16 bit apps, the move to 32 bit |
| should be quite easy, I'd just like to improve it first. The driver behaves as |
| if it were a DRV file called WINEPS.DRV . To install it as the default printer |
| driver add |
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| device=Wine PostScript Driver,WINEPS,LPT1: |
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| to the [windows] section of win.ini . You may prefer to add |
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| Wine PostScript Driver=WINEPS,LPT1: |
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| to the [devices] section of win.ini instead. |
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| You will need Adobe Font Metric (AFM) files for the (type 1 PostScript) fonts |
| that you wish to use. You can get these from |
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| ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/win/all/afmfiles . The directories base17 or |
| base35 are good places to start. |
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| Note that these are only the font metrics and not the fonts themselves. At |
| present the driver does not download additional fonts, so you can only use |
| fonts that are already present on the printer. |
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| Then create a [afmfiles] section in your wine.conf (or ~/.winerc) and add a |
| line of the form |
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| file=/unix/path/name/filename.afm |
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| for each AFM file that you wish to use. [This might change in the future] |
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| You also require a PPD file for your printer. This describes certain |
| characteristics of the printer such as which fonts are installed, how to select |
| manual feed etc. Adobe also has many of these on its website, have a look in |
| ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/printerdrivers/win/all/ |
| Put the PPD in the directory from which you start wine and call it default.ppd |
| [this will definitely change soon]. |
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| To enable colour printing you need to have the *ColorDevice entry in the PPD |
| set to true, otherwise the driver will generate greyscale. |
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| Note that you need not set printer=on in the [wine] section of wine.conf, this |
| enables printing via external printer drivers and does not affect wineps. |
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| If you're lucky you should now be able to produce PS files from Wine! |
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| I've tested it with win3.1 notepad/write, Winword6 and Origin4.0 with some |
| degree of success - you should be able to get something out, it may not be in |
| the right place. |
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| TODO / Bugs |
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| Driver does read PPD files, but ignores all constraints and doesn't let you |
| specify whether you have optional extras such as envelope feeders. You will |
| therefore find a larger than normal selection of input bins in the print setup |
| dialog box. I've only really tested ppd parsing on the hp4m6_v1.ppd file. |
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| Many graphics functions to do. |
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| No TrueType download. |
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| AdvancedSetup dialog box. |
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| Many partially implemented functions. |
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| ps.c is becoming messy. |
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| No clipping. |
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| Notepad often starts text too far to the left depending on the margin |
| settings. However the win3.1 pscript.drv (under wine) also does this. |
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| Probably many more... |
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| Since the driver is very alpha, things are likely to change quickly. |
| Please contact me if you want to help so that we can avoid duplication. |
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| Huw Davies <h.davies1@physics.ox.ac.uk> |
