PowerBuilder 10-based app: Printing issue

hugoc2008 · Post by **hugoc2008** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 2:01 pm

Hi to all,
Last year I ask for help here, for a PB-based application issue, and the good folks here pointed me to a solution :-) Now I got another problem.

Part of the app consists in print invoices. That function works in Windows, but in Wine I got an screwed printout.

Just for experimental purposes, I installed the "CUPS-PDF" package, to get the PDF view of the invoice, and the PDF looks good (if you don't know what CUPS-PDF is, it lets you create a "virtual printer" in CUPS, which takes your printjob and transform it to a PDF file, much like the "Export to PDF" function of OpenOffice.org).

I put two PDFs in anyhs.dontexist.net, showing a "good invoice", printed with CUPS-PDF; and a "bad invoice", printed to a real printer.

I ran the app with WINEDEBUG using the "print", "printui" and "winspool" channels, but I didn't find anything that seems an error or bug, except for this:

fixme:psdrv:PSDRV_ExtEscape QUERYESCSUPPORT(25) - not supported.

hugoc2008 · Post by **hugoc2008** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:27 am

I tried other programs, M$ Office and Firefox 3, and they can print fine.

Even my problematic PB app has some functions to create and print reports, and they print fine as well. It's just the "invoices" part the one which messes up its printjob.

And the debug switches I tried doesn't give me any clue about what's missing; neither "err" nor "fixme". But I can do some debugging again and post the results here, if someone asks to do it.

Post by **dimesio** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:38 am

hugoc2008 wrote:I tried other programs, M$ Office and Firefox 3, and they can print fine.

Even my problematic PB app has some functions to create and print reports, and they print fine as well. It's just the "invoices" part the one which messes up its printjob.

And the debug switches I tried doesn't give me any clue about what's missing; neither "err" nor "fixme". But I can do some debugging again and post the results here, if someone asks to do it.

You're going to have to provide more information before anyone can help you. What distro? What version of Wine? What app? Have you searched the AppDB and bugzilla? Post console output.