Is Wine printing on MacOSX?

Hi,

although wine in MacOSX works generally good enough (see test.winehq.org about
release 1.1.28), I recently visited the print menu in notepad and wordpad to
see whether printing would work (in order to complete the FAQ).

All that happened is that the printer ejected a blank page.

Was anyone more successful than me at printing?

- My printer appears in Notepad's and Wordpad's menus, so that's a start.
- The page size and portrait/landscape selection dialogue appears.
- The OSX printer status shows something is happening.
- However the printer only ejects a blank page.
- The console shows no particular log line.

o Do my troubles arise from the fact that I compile Wine only with
  standard MacOS libraries?
  E.g. liblcms (color management) is missing from my system (but no error
  message signals that it would have been used at run-time).
o Should I have tried a "real" app instead of (fake) notepad?

Using Mac OS X 10.5.7 and wine compiled myself (see Wiki.winehq.org about how).

Regards,
    Jörg Höhle

[Dylan Smith]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:15 PM,  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> although wine in MacOSX works generally good enough (see test.winehq.org about
> release 1.1.28), I recently visited the print menu in notepad and wordpad to
> see whether printing would work (in order to complete the FAQ).
>
> All that happened is that the printer ejected a blank page.

Don't expect printing to work in wordpad for now.   The EM_FORMATRANGE
message is used in wordpad to do printing, and that isn't implemented
yet.

I think notepad should work though, since it is using ExtTextOut.

[Roderick Colenbrander]

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Dylan Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:15 PM,  wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > although wine in MacOSX works generally good enough (see test.winehq.org about
> > release 1.1.28), I recently visited the print menu in notepad and wordpad to
> > see whether printing would work (in order to complete the FAQ).
> >
> > All that happened is that the printer ejected a blank page.
>
> Don't expect printing to work in wordpad for now.   The EM_FORMATRANGE
> message is used in wordpad to do printing, and that isn't implemented
> yet.
>
> I think notepad should work though, since it is using ExtTextOut.

I have been able to print from Wine apps in OSX though I'm still
having some issues which I did not investigate yet. The issue is that
when I print from my app which uses non-standard fonts with some
integral / summation symbols that those symbols are lost during the
printing and that a 'square' is shown instead. I don't see this issue
on Linux.

Roderick