How to print documents in Wine... Written by &name-huw-davies; &email-huw-davies; (Extracted from wine/documentation/printing) Printing in Wine can be done in one of two ways: 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 with their Windows printer drivers. 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 ~/.wine/config). 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 ~/.wine/config. The code for the driver interface is in graphics/win16drv. Enables printing of PostScript files via a driver built into Wine. See below for installation instructions. The code for the PostScript driver is in dlls/wineps/. 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. 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. There are now also virtual spool queues called LPR:printername, which send the data to lpr -Pprintername. You do not need to specify those in the config file, they are handled automatically by dlls/gdi/printdrv.c. Written by &name-huw-davies; &email-huw-davies; (Extracted from wine/documentation/psdriver) This allows Wine to generate PostScript files without needing an external printer driver. Wine in this case uses the system provided postscript printer filters, which almost all use ghostscript if necessary. Those should be configured during the original system installation or by your system administrator. If you are using CUPS you do not need to configure .ini or registry entries, everything is autodetected. If your system is not yet using CUPS, it probably uses LPRng or a LPR based system with configuration based on /etc/printcap. If it does, your printers in /etc/printcap are scanned with a heuristic whether they are PostScript capable printers and also configured mostly automatic. Since WINE cannot find out what type of printer this is, you need to specify a PPD file in the [ppd] section of ~/.wine/config. Either use the shortcut name and make the entry look: [ppd] "ps1" = "/usr/lib/wine/ps1.ppd" Or you can specify a generic PPD file matching for all of the rest printers. A generic PPD file can be found in documenation/samples/generic.ppd. You do not need to this, if the above 2 sections apply, only if you have a special printer. "Wine PostScript Driver" = "WINEPS,LPT1:" to the [devices] section and "Wine PostScript Driver" = "WINEPS,LPT1:,15,45" to the [PrinterPorts] 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 ~/.wine/config and ??? [sic] You also need to add certain entries to the registry. The easiest way to do this is to customise the contents of documentation/psdrv.reg (see below) and use the Winelib program programs/regapi/regapi. For example, if you have installed the Wine source tree in /usr/src/wine, you could use the following series of commands: cp /usr/src/wine/documentation/psdrv.reg ~ vi ~/psdrv.reg Edit the copy of psdrv.reg to suit your requirements. At a minimum, you must specify a PPD file for each printer. regapi setValue < ~/psdrv.reg 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. (Actually, the driver can use any font that is listed in the PPD file, for which it has an AFM file. If you use fonts that are not installed in your printer, or in Ghostscript, you will need to use some means of embedding the font in the print job or downloading the font to the printer. Note also that the driver does not yet properly list required fonts in its DSC comments, so a print manager that depends on these comments to download the proper fonts to the printer may not work properly.) Then create a [afmdirs] section in your wine.conf (or ~/.wine/config) and add a line of the form "dir<n>" = "/unix/path/name/" for each directory that contains AFM files you wish to use. There usually are a lot of afm files already on your system, within ghostscript, enscript, a2ps or similar programs. You might check (and probably add) the following entries to the [afmdirs] section. "1" = "/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts" "2" = "/usr/share/a2ps/afm" "3" = "/usr/share/enscript" "4" = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" 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/. See above for information on configuring the driver to use this file. 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 the builtin PostScript driver. 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. &name-huw-davies; &email-huw-davies;