Printers in wine

[Kevin Cummings]

I'm running wine on my F14 laptop.

I have an old windows application that I have a lot of sheet music in.
(Its called Rhapsody.)  I'd like to print some of them, but the Print
and Print Setup menu's in the File pulldown of the program are grayed out.

I went to /usr/share/doc/wine-docs-1.2 to read up on how wine interacts
with CUPS.  According to the documentation, it should just work, that
wine interfaces directly to CUPS.  If that's the case, why are my
printing entries greyed out in my application?

CUPS is up and running on my laptop, and both printers that I've added
are available and working from the Linux side of things.

What (more) information can I provide to help sort this out.

[For those who are wondering, yes, this used to work for me in the past,
but that was before my recent F14 upgrade.  I'm pretty sure it was last
working for me on F12.  Before that, it would have been F9....]

Wine 1.3.8.  X86_64 in case that makes a difference.

wine-desktop-1.3.8-1.fc14.noarch
wine-small-fonts-1.3.8-1.fc14.noarch
wine-twain-1.3.8-1.fc14.x86_64
wine-1.3.8-1.fc14.x86_64
wine-core-1.3.8-1.fc14.x86_64
wine-fonts-1.3.8-1.fc14.noarch
wine-cms-1.3.8-1.fc14.i686
wine-openal-1.3.8-1.fc14.x86_64
wine-core-1.3.8-1.fc14.i686
wine-pulseaudio-1.3.8-1.fc14.x86_64
wine-openal-1.3.8-1.fc14.i686
wine-symbol-fonts-1.3.8-1.fc14.noarch
wine-ldap-1.3.8-1.fc14.i686
wine-system-fonts-1.3.8-1.fc14.noarch
wine-pulseaudio-1.3.8-1.fc14.i686
wine-marlett-fonts-1.3.8-1.fc14.noarch
wine-capi-1.3.8-1.fc14.i686
wine-ldap-1.3.8-1.fc14.x86_64
wine-twain-1.3.8-1.fc14.i686
wine-common-1.3.8-1.fc14.noarch
wine-oss-1.3.8-1.fc14.x86_64
wine-nas-1.3.8-1.fc14.x86_64
wine-jack-1.3.8-1.fc14.x86_64
wine-cms-1.3.8-1.fc14.x86_64
wine-alsa-1.3.8-1.fc14.x86_64
wine-capi-1.3.8-1.fc14.x86_64
wine-esd-1.3.8-1.fc14.x86_64
wine-courier-fonts-1.3.8-1.fc14.noarch
wine-docs-1.2-1.fc14.noarch
wine-wow-1.3.8-1.fc14.x86_64

cups-1.4.4-11.fc14.x86_64

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Kevin J. Cummings
kjchome(a)rcn.com
cummings(a)kjchome.homeip.net
cummings(a)kjc386.framingham.ma.us
Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)

[James McKenzie]

On 12/14/10 9:09 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>  I'm running wine on my F14 laptop.
>  
Kevin:

Can you visit the Wine forums and search for an answer there?  I think 
this was recently discussed.

James McKenzie

[Kevin Cummings]

On 12/14/2010 11:21 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
>  On 12/14/10 9:09 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> > I'm running wine on my F14 laptop.
> >
>  Kevin:
>  
>  Can you visit the Wine forums and search for an answer there?  I think 
>  this was recently discussed. 
I search the forums for thread containing the word CUPS.  I found one
thread (out of 95) discussing the fact that the default printer never
changes because of the contents of ~/.cups/lpoptions file, and that if
it was deleted, things got better.  Not for me.  Removing that file does
nothing for the application I'm running.  I did look through the
registry files and the windows/win.ini file in my drive_c, and I can see
my printers listed in those files.  I'm just not seeing them in my
application.  B^(

For now, I've worked around the problem by copying my application to my
wife's Windows machine, and running the application there, and using
some windows PDF-printer to create the PDFs I needed.  I just wished it
would have continued to work on Linux with wine.

>  James McKenzie 
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Kevin J. Cummings
kjchome(a)rcn.com
cummings(a)kjchome.homeip.net
cummings(a)kjc386.framingham.ma.us
Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)

[Tim]

On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 23:09 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>  I have an old windows application that I have a lot of sheet music
> in.
>  (Its called Rhapsody.)  I'd like to print some of them, but the Print
>  and Print Setup menu's in the File pulldown of the program are grayed
>  out.
>   
>  I went to /usr/share/doc/wine-docs-1.2 to read up on how wine
>  interacts with CUPS.  According to the documentation, it should just
>  work, that wine interfaces directly to CUPS.  If that's the case, why
>  are my printing entries greyed out in my application? 
Firewall blocking the port used by CUPS?  It'd need to be open both
ways.  Not that I use Wine, but that's the first thing that springs to
mind.  It not finding a printer, so not offering any options about it.

-- 
[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.  I
read messages from the public lists.

[Kevin Cummings]

On 12/15/2010 05:36 AM, Tim wrote:
>  Firewall blocking the port used by CUPS?  It'd need to be open
> both
>  ways.  Not that I use Wine, but that's the first thing that springs to
>  mind.  It not finding a printer, so not offering any options about it. 
I don't think so, the printers work outside of wine....And wine can find
them to put them in its configuration files.  Its just that the
application I'm running under wine has the printer menus greyed out.

-- 
Kevin J. Cummings
kjchome(a)rcn.com
cummings(a)kjchome.homeip.net
cummings(a)kjc386.framingham.ma.us
Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)