Printing problem

[Ian Stephen]

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 14:14, Mike Reinehr wrote:
> On Saturday 22 January 2005 06:42 pm, IAN STEPHEN wrote:
> >
> Have you checked your print driver setups? CUPS, OOo, Gimp & Mozilla all have 
> different printing setups. OOo & Gimp both use their own, different drivers. 
> If Gimp is working, but OOo isn't, the first thing I would do is check the 
> printer setup in OOo.

Would think so too, but the problem was first noticed in the OOo1.1.3
that was packaged with the distro.  I installed OOo1.1.4 from
OpenOffice.org and it had the same problem.  Makes me think it's not OOo
itself, but something the file gets passed to.

>  As far as I know, all native Linux applications format 
> their printed output in Postscript

Seems so.

> Mozilla defaults to printing to you system, default  printer via lp or lpr, 
> which should have been set up by CUPS. But, for that to work you have to have 
> installed the CUPSSYS-BSD package  which installs CUPS compatible substitutes 
> for the standard BSD lpd commands.
> 
> Check your CUPS printer setup as well to see which driver you are using, or 
> just are printing raw.
> 
> HTH
> 
> cmr

Thanks, will check these.  Hadn't heard of CUPSSYS-BSD.

IanS