Incomplete List of Available Printers in Quicken

[bgood]

I am running Quicken Home and Business 2006 on an Intel iMac with OSX (Leopard - 10.5.2) with X11 installed and using Darwine 1.0b (from kronenberg).

When I attempt to print anything in Quicken the list of available printers only shows the two physical printers available to the iMac but none of the PDF printers show. When I open Firefox in Darwine it shows a complete list of printers including the Quicken PDF printer, which was the first PDF printer I added to my Darwine install. An additional clue may come from my insall of IEs4Mac. When I open IE it shows the same list of printers that Quicken shows.

I've tried to uninstall Quicken using their Uninstall option on their Install CD and then doing a re-install but nothing changes. Since IE shows the same partial list is this really a Darwine issue rather than an Application issue?

How do I get all the applications to show the same, complete list of printer options, that Firefox is showing?

Thanks

[vitamin]

I am running Quicken Home and Business 2006 on an Intel iMac with OSX (Leopard - 10.5.2) with X11 installed and using Darwine 1.0b (from kronenberg).

When I attempt to print anything in Quicken the list of available printers only shows the two physical printers available to the iMac but none of the PDF printers show. When I open Firefox in Darwine it shows a complete list of printers including the Quicken PDF printer, which was the first PDF printer I added to my Darwine install. An additional clue may come from my insall of IEs4Mac. When I open IE it shows the same list of printers that Quicken shows.

I've tried to uninstall Quicken using their Uninstall option on their Install CD and then doing a re-install but nothing changes. Since IE shows the same partial list is this really a Darwine issue rather than an Application issue?

How do I get all the applications to show the same, complete list of printer options, that Firefox is showing?

Thanks

Make all the printers available via CUPS. Wine does not pickup any "virtual" printers that are not known to CUPS.

[bgood]

Thanks for that direction/suggestion. I've just tried going though the Apple info and the cups.org/documentation and don't see how to make all the virtual printers available via CUPS. Apple says to add/share printers via their Preferences to make the printers available to Unix users (sound like they are thinking about networked Unix users) and the CUPS documents I went through don't talk about adding virtual printers. Can you give me some details on how to do this? I'm still pretty new to Linux.

Thanks

[vitamin]

Thanks for that direction/suggestion. I've just tried going though the Apple info and the cups.org/documentation and don't see how to make all the virtual printers available via CUPS. Apple says to add/share printers via their Preferences to make the printers available to Unix users (sound like they are thinking about networked Unix users) and the CUPS documents I went through don't talk about adding virtual printers. Can you give me some details on how to do this? I'm still pretty new to Linux.

Thanks

If you don't want/don't know how to go through CUPS you can use something like "|kprint" for the printer port. Where "kprint" is the KDE's "print manager" and printer port - the printer port for a particular printer in the registry (you will find if if you look for "port".

[bgood]

I'm quite glad to add the printers in CUPS, just having to come up the learning curve. I found step by step instructions here: http://sme-mirror.voxteneo.com/contribs ... nter.html. However, when I go to my "Device" list while adding the printer I don't have the option they list for "PDF Writing". Here's my list of available devices:
AppSocket/HP JetDirect
Bluetooth Printer (bluetooth)
Bluetooth- Modem
Epson Apple Talk
Epson FireWire
Epson TCPIP
Fax Printer (fax)
Internet Printing Protocol (http)
Internet Printing Protocol (ipp)
LPD/LPR Host or Printer
Network Printer via SAMBA
Zeroconf registered printer...

Which should I choose?

When I view the list of printers currently available in CUPS it is just the two physical printers that are available to the iMac.

If Wine doesn't support virtual printers, and the PDF printer's I "installed" in Darwine aren't showing up in CUPS, then why do I get both of the PDF printers I've installed showing up when I open the Windows version of Firefox that I've installed inside Darwine?

Appreciate the help.

[vitamin]

If Wine doesn't support virtual printers, and the PDF printer's I "installed" in Darwine aren't showing up in CUPS, then why do I get both of the PDF printers I've installed showing up when I open the Windows version of Firefox that I've installed inside Darwine?

Appreciate the help.

Some programs "filter" printers based on their capabilities. And virtual PDF printers might not qualify. I've seen this before but I can't be 100% sure it's the case here. Just guessing.

[dimesio]

Let me say first that I know nothing about Macs, with or without Wine. But CUPS does have a backend for printing to PDF files (cups-pdf) that works quite well with Wine in Linux. And there does appear to be a Mac version: http://www.codepoetry.net/projects/cups-pdf-for-mosx

[bgood]

Making progress. I found CUPS-PDF, http://www.codepoetry.net/projects/cups-pdf-for-mosx, and installed it. Now all Darwine applications see the CUPS-PDF printer and can print to it. However, I made a mistake during install and didn't alter the default URI so I don't know where the printouts are going. The CUPS Admin console says "Device URI: cups-pdf:/". Using Terminal I navigated to the /etc/cups directory and I can see the cups-pdf config files but don't see any output (pdf) files. I've tried using the Modify Printer and Set Printer Options buttons but neither of them give me the ability to change the location of the output file. Can you tell where I can find the "cups-pdf:/" out location or how I can change it?

Thanks

[dimesio]

Looks like you found the URL just as I was typing my post.

(Caveat: everything I'm about to say applies to my Linux system; the filenames/directories may be different in the Mac package you used, so you may have to hunt a bit.)

CUPS-PDF by default sends the output files to /var/spool/cups-pdf/${USER}, where "${USER}" is the username.

IIRC, I had to actually edit the /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf file manually to change it. Open the file in a text editor and look for something that looks like this line:

#Out /var/spool/cups-pdf/${USER}

Remove the # and change the path to wherever you want the output to go, then save the file.

[bgood]

Great, Thanks. Now have a CUPS-PDF desktop folder with a test output file in the folder

Next challenge is that my output file is only a portion of the page I tried to print. When I opened the file in Acrobat it was set to 293% size but even when I scaled the view down I still only have about 10-15% of my page content -- the content that was there is way larger than the original. If you have any ideas on how to tweak that I would appreciate it. I will post up to the cups-pdf support forum and see what they say.

Really appreciate the help!

[dimesio]

Did you have the paper size set correctly when you sent it to print? That's the only thing I can think of offhand--I never had that problem myself. (But I don't use Quicken.)

[bgood]

You were right. The default page size for the cups-pdf printer was set to A4. When I change it to "letter" inside Quicken everything works. So I went back into the CUPS web manager and adjusted the default paper size and print resolution.

Looks like I'm all set.

Thanks again for all the help.