| Printing in Wine |
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| Printing in Wine can be done in one of two ways. Both of which are very alpha. |
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| 1. Use a windows 3.1 printer driver. |
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| 2. Use the builtin Wine Postscript driver (+ ghostscript to produce output for |
| non-postscript printers). |
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| 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. |
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| 1. External printer drivers |
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| At present only 16 bit drivers will work. |
| Add |
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| printer=on |
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| to the [wine] section of wine.conf (or ~/.winerc). This lets CreateDC proceed |
| if its driver argument is a 16 bit driver. |
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| You will probably also need to add |
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| TTEnable=0 |
| TTOnly=0 |
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| to the [TrueType] section of win.ini . |
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| The code for the driver interface is in graphics/win16drv . |
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| 2. Builtin Wine Postscript driver |
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| Enables printing of postscript files via a driver built into Wine. See |
| graphics/psdrv/README for installation instructions. The code for the |
| postscript driver is in graphics/psdrv . |
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| 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 |
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| LPT1:=foo.ps |
| LPT2:=|lpr |
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| 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. |
