[Bug 9411] New: Printing: does not work when emulating Windows 98

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9411

Summary: Printing: does not work when emulating Windows 98
           Product: Wine
           Version: 0.9.43.
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: major
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-gdi-(printing)
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

I used the script ies4linux (ies4linux-2.0.5) to install Internet Explorer 6.0.
The script sets the Windows version to Windows 98.

But: Printing did not work, not only in the Internet Explorer, but using
notepad, either.

Setting the Windows version to "Windows 2000" made my printer work again (using
notepad), but stopped the Internet Explorer working.

This is not an ie4linux issue, as I had the same problems when trying to set
the Windows version to "Windows 98" in my clean "/.wine" directory.

At last I was able to solve the problem by adding some Registry Entries:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environments\Windows
4.0\Drivers\Version-0\Einzelplatzdrucker]
"Configuration File"="wineps16"
"Datatype"="RAW"
"Driver"="wineps16"

where "Einzelplatzdrucker" is the name of my printer.

I assume that printing would work well with Windows 98 settings, if those
Registry entries would be produced automatically when executing
"wineprefixcreate" (as it is obviously done for the correspondant Registry
Entries in
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environments\Windows
NT x86\Drivers\Version-3]

So this might be quite easy to fix, but a great help for anybody having to
print pages in the Internet Explorer (as I have to do sometimes).

Christoph