How to print documents in Wine... written by (???) (Extracted from wine/documentation/printing) Printing in Wine can be done in one of two ways. Both of which are very alpha. Use an external windows 3.1 printer driver. 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. At present only 16 bit drivers will work (note that these include win9x drivers). To use them, 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. 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 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. written by Huw Davies h.davies1@physics.ox.ac.uk (Extracted from wine/documentation/psdriver) 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. The driver behaves as if it were a DRV file called wineps.drv which at the moment is built into Wine. Although it mimics a 16 bit driver it will work with both 16 and 32 bit apps, just as win9x drivers do. To install it add Wine PostScript Driver=WINEPS,LPT1: to the [devices] section of win.ini and to set it as the default printer also add device=Wine PostScript Driver,WINEPS,LPT1: to the [windows] section of win.ini and ??? [sic] To run 32 bit apps (and 16 bit apps using the builtin commdlg) you also need to add certain entries to the registry. The easiest way to do that at the moment is to use the winelib program programs/regapi/regapi with the file documentation/psdrv.reg. To do this cd to programs/regapi/regapi and type make to actually make the program, then type ./regapi setValue <../../documentation/psdrv.reg. You can obviously edit psdrv.reg to suit your requirements. You will need Adobe Font Metric (AFM) files for the (type 1 PostScript) fonts that you wish to use. You can get these from ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/win/all/afmfiles . The directories base17 or base35 are good places to start. Note that these are only the font metrics and not the fonts themselves. At the moment the driver does not download additional fonts, so you can only use fonts that are already present on the printer. Then create a [afmfiles] section in your wine.conf (or ~/.winerc) and add a line of the form file<n>=/unix/path/name/filename.afm for each AFM file that you wish to use. [This might change in the future] 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/. Create a [psdrv] section in your wine.conf (or ~/.winerc) and add the following entry: ppdfile=/somewhere/file.ppd By default, the driver will look for a file named default.ppd in the directory from which you started wine. To enable colour printing you need to have the *ColorDevice entry in the PPD set to true, otherwise the driver will generate greyscale. 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. If you're lucky you should now be able to produce PS files from Wine! I've tested it with win3.1 notepad/write, Winword6 and Origin4.0 and 32 bit apps such as win98 wordpad, Winword97, Powerpoint2000 with some degree of success - you should be able to get something out, it may not be in the right place. 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. No TrueType download. StretchDIBits uses level 2 PostScript. AdvancedSetup dialog box. Many partially implemented functions. ps.c is becoming messy. 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. Probably many more... Please contact me if you want to help so that we can avoid duplication. Huw Davies h.davies1@physics.ox.ac.uk