| Printing in Wine | |
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| Printing in Wine can be done in one of two ways. Both of which are very alpha. | |
| 1. Use a windows 3.1 printer driver. | |
| 2. Use the builtin Wine Postscript driver (+ ghostscript to produce output for | |
| non-postscript printers). | |
| Note that at the moment WinPrinters (cheap, dumb printers that require the host | |
| computer to explicitly control the head) will not work. It is unclear whether | |
| they ever will. | |
| 1. External printer drivers | |
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| At present only 16 bit drivers will work (note that these include win9x | |
| drivers). | |
| Add | |
| printer=on | |
| to the [wine] section of wine.conf (or ~/.winerc). This lets CreateDC proceed | |
| if its driver argument is a 16 bit driver. | |
| You will probably also need to add | |
| TTEnable=0 | |
| TTOnly=0 | |
| to the [TrueType] section of win.ini . | |
| The code for the driver interface is in graphics/win16drv . | |
| 2. Builtin Wine PostScript driver | |
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| Enables printing of PostScript files via a driver built into Wine. See | |
| documentation/psdriver for installation instructions. The code for the | |
| PostScript driver is in graphics/psdrv . | |
| Spooling | |
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| Spooling is rather primitive. The [spooler] section of wine.conf maps a port | |
| (e.g. LPT1:) to a file or a command via a pipe. For example the following lines | |
| LPT1:=foo.ps | |
| LPT2:=|lpr | |
| map LPT1: to file foo.ps and LPT2: to the lpr command. If a job is sent to an | |
| unlisted port then a file is created with that port's name e.g. for LPT3: a | |
| file called LPT3: would be created. |