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Wine Postscript Driver
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When complete this will allow Wine to generate Postscript files without needing
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an external printer driver. It should be possible to print to a non Postscript
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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
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should be quite easy, I'd just like to improve it first. The driver behaves as
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if it were a DRV file called WINEPS.DRV . To install it as the default printer
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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
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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
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base35 are good places to start.
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Note that these are only the font metrics and not the fonts themselves. At
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present the driver does not download additional fonts, so you can only use
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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
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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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Note that you need not set printer=on in the [wine] section of wine.conf, this
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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
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degree of success - you should be able to get something out, it may not be in
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the right place.
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TODO / Bugs
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Driver doesn't read PPD files - it should.
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A4 portrait mode is hard coded in at the moment.
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Graphics are basically non-existent. Only MoveTo/LineTo/Rectangle with a thin
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black pen.
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No colour.
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AFM parsing is not finished (or ideal).
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No TrueType download.
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Many partial-implemented functions.
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Probably many more...
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Since the driver is very very alpha, things are likely to change quickly.
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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>
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