[cw-discuss] Wine PostScript Driver

[Bodvar Bjorgvinsson]

Adobe do not support or recommend multiple installations of Adobe
Reader or Adobe Acrobat (or Distiller) or a mixture thereof on a
Windows machine. I don't see why you should need the windows option
here. I would understand the need for the full Acrobat Pro and the
Adobe PostScript driver, but I don't think this is supported in
CrossOver.

I have Adobe FrameMaker 7.2 installed (and this is the ONLY reason I
need CrossOver), but I have not found out how to make full use of its
direct access to the PostScript code (using its built in settings
options), addressing the Adobe PostScript Driver and Adobe Distiller.

And, BTW, a PostScript Driver is just like any printer "driver" a
filter that tells the device (printer or Distiller) how to interpret
the input to it (when you hit "print" or "Save as PDF" or the like).

I do not know that Adobe Reader for Linux uses any specific driver.
Maybe because PostScript is native to UNIX/Linux systems?

So I would appreciate some light shed on this matter too. Also,
whether Adobe Reader for Windows interacts in any way with the
resources of the Linux sibling.

Bodvar Bjorgvinsson


On 12/29/06, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at hotpop.com> wrote:
> I recently installed Adobe Reader 7.07 for Windows using CrossOver
> Office. When I go to print I find "Wine PostScript Driver." The other
> drivers I have installed in CUPS are also listed, but this must be
> something outside of CUPS. My other drivers don't work properly from
> Adobe Reader 7.08 for Linux, which I also have installed. In fact, they
> don't work properly from the Windows version that I just installed
> either. Hence, I'd like to try the "Wine PostScript Driver," but what
> is it? I can't find any way to configure it. If I select it, how will
> it know where to send the print stream, i.e., what port will it use?
>
> The dialog box also lists "KDE Print System," but there is also no way
> to configure this or figure out what it is or where it came from. I use
> Gnome desktop, not KDE.
>
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