Printing problem

[bfranky]

Hello,

I'm new to WINE and cannot get a windows desktop publishing program to print. Wine's notebook prints, so I know WINE can reach my printer (Canon Pixma IP4200). What can I do to get my Quark program to use the same drivers? When I try to print now, nothing happens -- no messages, nothing.

Thanks for any help.

Frank

[qwertymn]

When I try to print now, nothing happens -- no messages, nothing.

Do you mean not even the printer-dialog comes up? If it doesn't i guess you just hit another wine-bug.



Note: if everything fails, you could try as last resort, if printing to pdf file _does_ work. Howto is below, copied from appdb. The pdf can of cause be printed from Linux easily.



1. Install cups-pdf

2. edit /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf and put something like this:

Out ${HOME}/PDF

instead of

Out ${DESKTOP}

in the file (otherwise i got errors like 'permission denied')

3. When the printer-dialog (in for exampe notepad or other app) opens, choose "Cups-pdf printer" , _DON'T_ choose "print to file" !!!, just hit 'OK' button, and you will find your pdf-file in ~/PDf with some kind of funny name.........[/quote]

[bfranky]

I went to cups and my printer had the message "/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster failed". In my cups error log, it reads

I [12/Jan/2009:11:00:03 -0600] [Job 11] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 3954)
I [12/Jan/2009:11:00:03 -0600] [Job 11] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster (PID 3955)
I [12/Jan/2009:11:00:03 -0600] [Job 11] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertogutenprint.5.0 (PID 3956)
I [12/Jan/2009:11:00:03 -0600] [Job 11] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/canon (PID 3957)
E [12/Jan/2009:11:00:03 -0600] PID 3955 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster) stopped with status 1!
I [12/Jan/2009:11:00:03 -0600] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug" to find out more.
E [12/Jan/2009:11:00:03 -0600] [Job 11] Job stopped due to filter errors.

Any ideas about raster files or status 1?

Thanks.

Frank