I know, it's theoretically a problem in Wine, but it's something that
needs a workaround on the Linux side.
I have a genealogy database created in Family Tree Maker (v7.0 in my
case) which I would like to print out to PDF before exporting to PAF and
then importing to GRAMPS. Mainly I would like to have the full printout
in case data doesn't import correctly, so that I can validate it before
editing the new database in GRAMPS.
The problem I have is that the printer selection dialogue does not work
correctly. It won't actually let you *set* anything, so you have to
rely upon whatever you have se as the default printer device in Linux (I
just tried this in a trial version of FTM 2005, and it has the exact
same bug). The additional problem here is that FTM/win prints every
family group as a *eparate* print job, and it doesn't send correct
header information to the print driver. This means it will create a PDF
named "_sdtin_.pdf", and will continuously *overwrite* that file for
each family group. If you want to get 250 family groups, it will
overwrite the first 249 in sequence, and just leave the last one.
I figure there must be a way to set up a modified printer definition
that would rename the PDF as soon as the file was closed from printing
(or, conversely, renames an existing file if found at the beginning of
the print job). using a timestamp for the file name would be adequate.
I just have no idea where to start looking.
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