Corel Draw and Printing

[Roland Kaser]

Hy all

There is, since a longer time ago, a wine bug #3599 about Corel Draw and
printing. Its a very strange behaviour. I can configure what ever I want, I
always uses the wine passthrough and sends the postscript code, of Corel
Draw directly to the printer instead of spooling it first through the cups
driver. I've readt all known documentations about wine and printing but
cannot get one step ahead. Can somebody tell me the wine internal reason of
this behaviour? I would really like to have this feature working. Why
didn't wine spool everything first through the cups spooler (as the default
behaviour) unless an other, explicity specified configuration tells wine to
passthrough the spool output. The other question is, why shows  wine a
postscript printer to corel draw? I know, I know, on Linux all printer
interfaces are postscript, but Corel takes this info literally and
explicitly creates postscript code (by itself) and not uses the windows
printer api to create the printer-document.

Roland Kaeser

[Kuba Ober]

> There is, since a longer time ago, a wine bug #3599 about Corel Draw and
> printing. Its a very strange behaviour. I can configure what ever I want, I
> always uses the wine passthrough and sends the postscript code, of Corel
> Draw directly to the printer instead of spooling it first through the cups
> driver. I've readt all known documentations about wine and printing but
> cannot get one step ahead. Can somebody tell me the wine internal reason of
> this behaviour? I would really like to have this feature working. Why
> didn't wine spool everything first through the cups spooler (as the default
> behaviour) unless an other, explicity specified configuration tells wine to
> passthrough the spool output. The other question is, why shows  wine a
> postscript printer to corel draw? I know, I know, on Linux all printer
> interfaces are postscript, but Corel takes this info literally and
> explicitly creates postscript code (by itself) and not uses the windows
> printer api to create the printer-document.

That's probably how Corel was designed, and that's OK.

Now as far as sending "directly" to the printer, what do you mean? Why do you 
think it goes "directly" to the printer? Directly as in what -- wine dumping 
to /dev/lp0? Have you looked at cups logs?

Cheers, Kuba

[Roland Kaser]

Kuba Ober wrote:
> That's probably how Corel was designed, and that's OK.
>
> Now as far as sending "directly" to the printer, what do you mean? Why do
> you think it goes "directly" to the printer? Directly as in what -- wine
> dumping to /dev/lp0? Have you looked at cups logs?
>
> Cheers, Kuba

Thats because cups prints the raw postscript (the postscript code itself)
output to the page. On the top of the page its readable "%%Begin Document:
Wine passthrough" which lets me strongly guess that wine directly sends the
Corel Draw created postscript code to the printer (passthrough) instead of
let it spool locally.

Roland Kaese

[Roland Kaeser]

Hello

Sorry, had to do something emergency stuff these days. I tried it to print
into a postscript file sent it to the printer (we don't have local
printers, all our, and mine, printers are only network printers, so I can't
send the code to /dev/lp0).
This worked fine.  I think its a kind of missing config parameters and its
behaviour in wine. It should be possible to force wine to spool everything
first through the local cups instead of sending it "passthough". 
Can somebody see that this feature comes into wine asap.

Roland Kaeser

Kuba Ober wrote:
> > There is, since a longer time ago, a wine bug #3599 about Corel Draw and
> > printing. Its a very strange behaviour. I can configure what ever I want,
> > I always uses the wine passthrough and sends the postscript code, of
> > Corel Draw directly to the printer instead of spooling it first through
> > the cups driver. I've readt all known documentations about wine and
> > printing but cannot get one step ahead. Can somebody tell me the wine
> > internal reason of this behaviour? I would really like to have this
> > feature working. Why didn't wine spool everything first through the cups
> > spooler (as the default behaviour) unless an other, explicity specified
> > configuration tells wine to
> > passthrough the spool output. The other question is, why shows  wine a
> > postscript printer to corel draw? I know, I know, on Linux all printer
> > interfaces are postscript, but Corel takes this info literally and
> > explicitly creates postscript code (by itself) and not uses the windows
> > printer api to create the printer-document.
>
> That's probably how Corel was designed, and that's OK.
>
> Now as far as sending "directly" to the printer, what do you mean? Why do
> you think it goes "directly" to the printer? Directly as in what -- wine
> dumping to /dev/lp0? Have you looked at cups logs?
>
> Cheers, Kuba