Printing with no printer

[Mike Hearn]

Hi,

It seems from reading the documentation that it's possible to print to a
.ps file in Wine, even if you don't actually have a printer. However, I'm
not sure how to do that - I've got far enough to get the 
"Couldn't find PPD file '/unix/path/to/PPD/file', expect a crash now!"
message, but am not sure where to go from here. I don't have any PPD
files, as I have no printer.

Has anybody done this before?

thanks -mike

[Marcus Meissner]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 04:38:57PM +0000, Mike Hearn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems from reading the documentation that it's possible to print to a
> .ps file in Wine, even if you don't actually have a printer. However, I'm
> not sure how to do that - I've got far enough to get the 
> "Couldn't find PPD file '/unix/path/to/PPD/file', expect a crash now!"
> message, but am not sure where to go from here. I don't have any PPD
> files, as I have no printer.
>
> Has anybody done this before?

You copy the generic.ppd file from documentation/samples, and add to .wine/config:

[ppd]
"generic" = "/usr/lib/wine/ppd/generic.ppd"

Ciao, Marcus