wine + msword + printing

[Collins Richey]

On Sat, 26 Apr 2003 15:12:52 +0200
Klaus-Peter Schrage <kpschrage at gmx.de> wrote:

> Collins Richey wrote:
> 
> >Who knows how to setup wine + msword so that you can print to a linux
> >spooled printer.  I've googled a lot, but haven't found anything.
> >
> >Yes, I know wine is anathema - "real men don't use wine," but my
> >lovely ladies are still hooked on it.
> >
> >Word runs just fine, but I can't get it to print.
> >
> >  
> >
> I have just installed WinWord 97 more or less successfully under Wine 
> (the installer complained about missing OCDB configuration), but Word 
> started and I was able to open an rtf file and to print. My setup:
> - Redhat 9
> - latest Wine 20030408 (compiled from source with the wineinstall
> script)- Cups spooling system.
> 
> The wine installation is nearly as out of the box; I have only added a
> 
> single native Win98 dll to c:/windows/system (riched20.dll) to make 
> wordpad run. and I have only minimally tweaked the configuration file 
> ~/.wine/config:
> - path to Drive A, C, D etc.
> - SCSI device setting for my cdrom
> - font path to /usr/share/fonts/local/TrueType (guess who's in there)
> (if you wish I can send you my config off list).
> 
> The secret of success in wine printing seems to be Cups. I have heard 
> nightmare stories about it, but I was quite impressed how the RH 9 
> installer configured Cups correctly to suit my printer (Deskjet 970C),
> 
> and I was even more impressed to see that wine recognized Cups and the
> 
> printer without any tweaking.
> According to the wine devellopers, configuring wine to play with other
> 
> spooling systems (LPRng) seems to be very tedious, so you might give 
> Cups a try.

Thanks, and aaaghh!  I've had nothing with failures on the latest
versions of cups.  Since cups began screwing around with ghostscript,
not even a simple laserjet4 will work for me.  I haven't tried in a few
months, so maybe they have fixed something.

I'm working with a pre-installed Win98 (dual boot) system, so I don't
need to install anything, just run it.

Yes I would love to see your wine config and any other tips you have.


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Collins Richey - Denver Area
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