Re: printing docu - wine-devel

8 Jul 2001


      Andreas Mohr wrote:
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Hi all,
while trying to configure Wine for printing in order to be able to use
Windows Acrobat Reader instead of Linux acroread which is crashing on certain
PDF files, I remembered that the printing docu is everything but perfect.
Updated printing docu a bit.
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 <sect3>
   <title>Spooling</title>
   <para>
     Spooling is rather primitive. The [spooler] section of



@@ -82,13 +82,14 @@
           example the following lines
         </para>
         <screen>
-"LPT1:" = "foo.ps" "LPT2:" = "|lpr"
+"LPT1:" = "foo.ps"
+"LPT2:" = "|lpr"
         </screen>
         <para>
           map <systemitem>LPT1:</systemitem> to file <filename>foo.ps</filename>
           and <systemitem>LPT2:</systemitem> to the <command>lpr</command>

     command. If a job is sent to an unlisted port then a file is created


     with that port's name e.g. for <systemitem>LPT3:</systemitem> a file




     command. If a job is sent to an unlisted port, then a file is created


     with that port's name; e.g. for <systemitem>LPT3:</systemitem> a file
     called <systemitem>LPT3:</systemitem> would be created.
   </para>

 <para>


While it used to work that way, for me at least, the part about - a job 
that is sent to an unlisted port will create a file with the port's name 
- stopped working a few months ago. And I just tested it a few minutes 
ago and it still does not work (for me). I don't know where the data 
goes, but it does not appear to be written to a file anywhere.
Actually, I think that is probably a good thing. In most cases, the 
print dialog should have a "Print to file" button. And if there is no 
way to specify a file name, then the ~/.wine/config entry
"FILE:" = "foo.ps"
will control where it is written, and in this case it will in fact be 
correctly written to the indicated file name.
Duane

    