How to print from WINE in antiX

[Member madibi]

Dear all, sometimes I need to print from wine (installed from antiX Program Installer). Mainly to pdf.

1st try:
I i tried to print to pdf without knowing i would need anything ==> I got a message from my win application: “you need to install a printer”

2nd try:
I searched on google and I found a lot of tutorials on this topic, some of them very complicated. Among those I decided to follow:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/965076/is-there-any-simple-printer-i-can-install-on-wine

To my surprise I found that when I tried to install the recommended program (printer-driver-cups-pdf), checking with synaptic I found it already installed (and the print to pdf still not worked)

3rd try:
I gave the cli command “sudo apt install –reinstall printer-driver-cups-pdf”, and everything worked as expected 🙂

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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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@madibi:

Thanks for the notes and solution to the problem.

Hopefully someone will be able to make good use of your timely and useful suggestions, especially the
‘3rd try’!

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Brian Masinick

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Thanks for the post @madibi – very useful

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