Commit 1ada63bd authored by Stefan Leichter's avatar Stefan Leichter Committed by Alexandre Julliard

Added documentation on how to setup wine's Buildin Postscript Driver

working with ghostscript (afmfiles, ppdfile).
parent 856aefa2
......@@ -73,6 +73,39 @@ apps such as win98 wordpad, Winword97, Powerpoint2000 with some degree of
success - you should be able to get something out, it may not be in the right
place.
If you don't have a PostScript printer here is a short additional description
how to get the Wine PostScript Driver running with ghostscript. I had some
success with ghostscript 5.10 from the SuSE 6.2 distribution. My ghostscript
package contains some AFM files in the directory /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts.
I have used these for the [afmfiles] section in my wine.conf (or ~/.winerc)
file.
There are also two PPD file in my ghostscript package. They are located in the
directory /usr/share/ghostscript/5.10. I have used the file cbjc600.ppd because
of the supported papersize. Because my PPD file needed some changes i have
copyed it to /usr/local/etc/gs.ppd and enterd it into the [psdrv] section in
my wine.conf (or ~/.winerc) file.
When i started wine after this settings i got an error when wine tried to pars
the PPD file. There was the ':' missing in the line:
*CloseUI: *PrintColors
After this fix the PPD file was successfull parsed, but printing was still not
possible. The reason is that the PPD file contains no font information. To
create the font information I run wine with -debugmsg +font and redirected the
output into a file. Than I filterd the file for lines containing 'FontName'
using the grep command and extracted the names of the fonts with the cut
command into a new file.
grep FontName LOGFILE | cut -f 2 -d\' | sort -u > add.ppd
Now '*Font ' needs to be inserted at the beginning of each line of the new
file. The end of each line needs to become ': Standard'. The last step is to
add these line to the PPD file. After this I was able to print some text using
wines buildin PostScript driver and ghostscript.
TODO / Bugs
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