Calendar Creator 12 - Printing - Super Small Not full page

[llzellner]

Program : Broderbund Calendar Creator 12 (CC12)

Issue:Printing the calendar is a 2 x 2 inch square on the page, not the full page... Tried via Save as PDF in program, same thing when opened in okular.... Used the listed printers in program, prints to the printer, just a small image in the corner.. Print Preview in the program is empty or a little square dot in the middle of the screen.. not the page like it should...

So missing libs here to get the print preview???

Issue with WINE translation to the printer when printing???

What does print.. is great.. its just 1/1000th of what it should be...

Distro: Kubuntu 20.04 Daily Fully updated -

WINE:
$ wine --version
wine-5.0 (Ubuntu 5.0-3)

Program installed, but a couple of issues with starting... Review logs below.

Install log:

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wine setup.exe 
0042:err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet skipping optional destination
0042:err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet skipping optional destination
0042:err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet skipping optional destination
004f:err:winediag:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path. Usually, you can find it in the winbind package of your distribution.
0050:err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot
0050:err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot
0050:err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot
0050:err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot
0052:err:setupapi:do_file_copyW Unsupported style(s) 0x284

Startup:

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$ wine Creator.exe               
0009:err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {00000100-0000-0010-8000-00aa006d2ea4} not registered
0009:err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {00000100-0000-0010-8000-00aa006d2ea4} could be created for context 0x1[/code

This is resolved by 

sudo apt-get install winetricks then 

winetricks -q mdac28
winetricks -q jet40

Program then runs... and I imported/loaded a cal from the user...  Loads fine.. displays exactly the same... Printing is my only issue I can see so far. The #1 use of the program.

Any ideas on the printing??? I don't care about the preview so much as what comes out on paper

[llzellner]

SOLUTION:

Installation :

sudo apt-get install printer-driver-cups-pdf

That is the part that makes printing work. Once I installed that and made it the default printer (which install does).. printing worked!

My printers are all networked printers....so no local printer in CUPS on the test setup...

Also I picked one of the printers CUPS found which is actually a shared CUPS.. which in native Linux its not an issue.. but this layer might have been an issue in getting printing to first crack.. I will reset that see if its an issue now.

The printout does seem to be "squeezed" down a little v. output on its native mode... I overcame that via setting the margins in the page setup to 0.2 all the way around...

Print to PDF via PDF CUPS doesn't work.. it prints about 1/4th of a section of the page and the rest is blank/missing... but so long as I can get actual paper output I think I am a go to use this for those users.. I am sure now that its an issue they will want to make a PDF...

Have to put some of the real user tests to it.. with actually doing more than what I did. But looks promising.. on to one other program which my first test. Was not promising.. at all.

Install is REPRODUCIBLE to working... setup.. done 2x.. the CC ISO/CD what ever you might be using has the runtimes needed

BUT optionally you can do

winetricks dotnet35

Also the icon for the program will show up on the desktop on a logout/login sequence.