Upside down text characters and Wine

[Jerry Lapham]

On Monday, November 22, 2010 02:41:50 pm Steve Morris wrote:

> On 22/11/10 12:13, Jerry Lapham wrote:
> >  I use the DeScribe 5.0 for Win32 word processor running in Wine
> > 
> > mainly for a monthly church newsletter.  Last month it "printed" just
> > fine to a postscript file, which I converted to .pdf to send to the
> > church office.
> > 
> > This month, when I "print" to the postscript file the clipart comes out
> > right- side-up but the text characters are upside down.  This is on my
> > Kubuntu 10.04 64bit version system.  The Wine version is 1.2.
> > 
> > If I copy the .dwp file to my old system running Kubuntu 8.04 and open it
> > in Describe, I can "print" to a postscript file and the text is
> > right-side-up. The Wine version is 1.0.
> > 
> > I suspect the Wine update to 1.2 may have happened in the last month and
> > caused the problem.  I'd like to either back up to the previous Wine
> > version or forward to a new version without the problem but I don't know
> > how.
> > 
> > Any help would be appreciated.

> 
> Hi Jerry,
>     Before determining it really is wine that is at fault, I would
> assume that you are using a printer driver to output to the postscript
> file.
> 
>     Is the driver you are using a windows driver installed in wines
> version of windows or a native linux driver?

I haven't installed any Windows drivers.  In DeScribe I just select one of my 
two printers and check the "Print to file" box, supplying a file name.

>     If it is a native linux driver are you using cups?

I have HL-4040CN series and Deskjet 4100 series printers set up in CUPS.

>     Also are the versions of these environments the same on both machines?
>     Is the software you are using to convert to pdf the same version on
> both systems?

Presumably both are using ghostscript.  The problem exists in creating the 
postscript file even before converting to .pdf.

>     If the driver is a native linux driver, can you mock up a sample
> newletter page in say openoffice writer and check if the resultant pdf
> has the same issues (I am assuming here the pdf converter is a native
> linux application rather than something you are running under wine)?

No problems printing from Open Office or Kate.
> 
>     As a possible temporary workaround to the issue, have you looked at
> doing you newletter layout in openoffice writer, as this has the
> capability of writing directly to pdf rather than having to go through
> the "print" processes.

That would require a lot of relearning -- which is the reason I'm still using 
DeScribe.

	-Jerry
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