Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer Recognition

2024-02-20 Thread Joe Conner 


On 2/20/24 17:20, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:

On 20/02/2024 17:43, aguador wrote:



El lun, 19-02-2024 a las 19:34 -0800, Tom escribió:

On 2/19/24 6:54 PM, Joe Conner wrote:

I use Ubuntu 22.04lts and the latest Ubuntu depository Libreoffice.

LibreOffice does not recognize my installed printers.  How do I
force
availability of Libreoffice to use my printer? When I try to print
only "generic printer" is available. I have a Canon laser
MFP743Cdw,
an HP laserjet M402dw, and an HP officejet pro 8025.

Each can be used when printing a .pdf using the Document Viewer
software so I export my word document to .pdf and print using the
Document Viewer. This kludge work-around works, but i think the
best
scenario is for LibreOffice to recognize my printers as it formerly
used to do.

I appreciate any suggestions.


I recommend that you re-install LibreOffice from the source 
 rather than the Ubuntu repositories. In 
earlier days, when I thought Ubuntu was a good idea for me, I had 
similar problems with printing from their variant of LibreOffice. They 
all went away after installing the original product.


Peter HB


That worked. Thank you.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer Recognition

2024-02-20 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook 

On 20/02/2024 17:43, aguador wrote:



El lun, 19-02-2024 a las 19:34 -0800, Tom escribió:

On 2/19/24 6:54 PM, Joe Conner wrote:

I use Ubuntu 22.04lts and the latest Ubuntu depository Libreoffice.

LibreOffice does not recognize my installed printers.  How do I
force
availability of Libreoffice to use my printer? When I try to print
only "generic printer" is available. I have a Canon laser
MFP743Cdw,
an HP laserjet M402dw, and an HP officejet pro 8025.

Each can be used when printing a .pdf using the Document Viewer
software so I export my word document to .pdf and print using the
Document Viewer. This kludge work-around works, but i think the
best
scenario is for LibreOffice to recognize my printers as it formerly
used to do.

I appreciate any suggestions.


I recommend that you re-install LibreOffice from the source 
 rather than the Ubuntu repositories. In 
earlier days, when I thought Ubuntu was a good idea for me, I had 
similar problems with printing from their variant of LibreOffice. They 
all went away after installing the original product.


Peter HB

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer Recognition

2024-02-20 Thread aguador 


El lun, 19-02-2024 a las 19:34 -0800, Tom escribió:
> On 2/19/24 6:54 PM, Joe Conner wrote:
> > I use Ubuntu 22.04lts and the latest Ubuntu depository Libreoffice.
> > 
> > LibreOffice does not recognize my installed printers.  How do I
> > force 
> > availability of Libreoffice to use my printer? When I try to print 
> > only "generic printer" is available. I have a Canon laser
> > MFP743Cdw,  
> > an HP laserjet M402dw, and an HP officejet pro 8025.
> > 
> > Each can be used when printing a .pdf using the Document Viewer 
> > software so I export my word document to .pdf and print using the 
> > Document Viewer. This kludge work-around works, but i think the
> > best 
> > scenario is for LibreOffice to recognize my printers as it formerly
> > used to do.
> > 
> > I appreciate any suggestions.
> > 
> 
> How does Ubuntu, itself, recognize the printer?
> 
To expand on Tom's point, in Linux CUPS handles the printing, not the
individual programs, that would make the question one for Ubuntu.

That said you described the printers as "installed," meaning they are
visible/listed in whatever printer settings are available in Ubuntu or
directly via CUPS in your browser (usually https://localhost:631, user
"root" and root password to access).

If you see them in CUPS/Ubuntu settings, try restarting in test mode
(don't recall the English at the moment, but available from the Help
menu), and/or shutting down LO and renaming your profile directory
"~/.config/libreoffice" (e.g., add ".bad" or ".old" or whatever you
like). When you restart, LO will create a new directory. If LO then
sees the printers, it means that your old profile was corrupted for
some reason. (It happens from time to time.)

If the profile is the problem, you will need to go through all your
settings again. You may be able to copy some elements (e.g., templates)
from the old directory to the new to save a little work.

If the profile is not the problem, you can erase the new directory and
change the old directory name back to "libreoffice."


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer Recognition

2024-02-19 Thread Tom 

On 2/19/24 6:54 PM, Joe Conner wrote:

I use Ubuntu 22.04lts and the latest Ubuntu depository Libreoffice.

LibreOffice does not recognize my installed printers.  How do I force 
availability of Libreoffice to use my printer? When I try to print 
only "generic printer" is available. I have a Canon laser MFP743Cdw,  
an HP laserjet M402dw, and an HP officejet pro 8025.


Each can be used when printing a .pdf using the Document Viewer 
software so I export my word document to .pdf and print using the 
Document Viewer. This kludge work-around works, but i think the best 
scenario is for LibreOffice to recognize my printers as it formerly 
used to do.


I appreciate any suggestions.



How does Ubuntu, itself, recognize the printer?

Peace...

Tom


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[libreoffice-users] Printer Recognition

2024-02-19 Thread Joe Conner 

I use Ubuntu 22.04lts and the latest Ubuntu depository Libreoffice.

LibreOffice does not recognize my installed printers.  How do I force 
availability of Libreoffice to use my printer? When I try to print only 
"generic printer" is available. I have a Canon laser MFP743Cdw,  an HP 
laserjet M402dw, and an HP officejet pro 8025.


Each can be used when printing a .pdf using the Document Viewer software 
so I export my word document to .pdf and print using the Document 
Viewer. This kludge work-around works, but i think the best scenario is 
for LibreOffice to recognize my printers as it formerly used to do.


I appreciate any suggestions.


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