Printing with Ubuntu/Wine

[charley]

I am trying to move from Windows to Ubuntu with Liberty.  I have downloaded V4,5,1 and entered the Registration Code Carl sent me.
It appears to run with some minor quirks but I can't get it to print.  Any suggestions from the Wine gurus out there.
Charley

[tenochtitlanuk]

I haven't run MS for years and run LB under Wine/Linux Mint. Practically no differences from running LB under Windows.

BUT I've never got it to print correctly from the editor- it prints black blocks, like black characters with a black background. No big deal- I just select all, copy and paste into Gedit or other editor if I want to print. Incidentally it does the same if I print from LB to a pdf file.

EDIT

PS you can load a saved LB PDF file and change the fill colour to white in LibreOffice. Will then show/print correctly.

[charley]

Thanks for the answer. I can do that.
Charley

[Rod]

We used to get such error reports in the distant past even for Windows. The solution was to update print drivers. Surely we need a better solution than copy paste. Do all Wine users have the same problem or can some of you print straight from the ide?

[tenochtitlanuk]

I think it is LB or the underlying Smalltalk, since when you print to PDF it does the same- puts a fill colour of black behind the black characters!¬

[xxgeek]

I'm no wine guru, nor do I have a printer.

Wine should use any printer installed in your Linux OS.
The thing is LB is 32 bit and may be running on a 64 bit OS in Wine.

www.dandandin.net/how-to-add-printers-in-wine/

[Rod]

Yeah but you don’t need a printer you should be able to print to pdf and look at the file.

[metro]

Feb 17, 2023 15:48:58 GMT -5 tenochtitlanuk said:

I haven't run MS for years and run LB under Wine/Linux Mint. Practically no differences from running LB under Windows.

BUT I've never got it to print correctly from the editor- it prints black blocks, like black characters with a black background. No big deal- I just select all, copy and paste into Gedit or other editor if I want to print. Incidentally it does the same if I print from LB to a pdf file.

EDIT

PS you can load a saved LB PDF file and change the fill colour to white in LibreOffice. Will then show/print correctly.

I have had this same issue with 32bit & 64bit OS's PCLinuxos Mint and others I have SAMBA shares setup

So if I need to test print I can use my windoze laptop

Great tip with Libre Office, I'll give that a go.

[xxgeek]

ok, I installed the printer to see what you guys are talking about. Yeah, strange.

@ - metro and tenochtitlanuk

Have you been through http://localhost:631/
and still can't find a solution?

Lots of info/settings in there. I wonder if there is a way to adjust what JB IDE sends to the PDF printer.
I have read about a similar problem in Adobe, and there was an option to "save as image" that fixed it.
Maybe cups is configured wrong.

Just throwing this info out there hoping....