On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 19:27, Dom Lachowicz wrote: > On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 16:30, John Mellor wrote: > > I think there is a technical expression for this but I hope I can make > > myself clear. I put a Gnome Printer Applet in my panel so I can print > > files by dragging them straight from the file manager (Nautilus) and > > dropping them onto the applet. Very convenient I thought for a quick > > copy without opening Abiword. However, the output is a verbatim copy of > > all the formatting info. The same happens if I print from the X-printer > > utility. I presume both these think the file is plain text. Both use lpr > > as the command, but I cannot find any argument that might resolve this. > > Can anyone help please? > > AbiWord files are just plain text, as all XML files are. Drag a HTML > file to your printer and you'll get just the HTML tags and not the > pretty display that netscape will show you on screen. You can run > abiword --print=file.ps or abiword --print=|lpr to print to a file or to > a printer. > > Dom
Thanks, Dom. I think I see what is happening now. The next question I then have, if you don't mind,is: I have downloaded gtklp and would like to use it for all my printing. I changed lpr in the galeon printing box to gtklp and it has stayed there, which is just what I want. I cannot, however, do the same with Abiword as it just keeps reappearing as lpr. The same happens with the printing box in Evolution. Any ideas how I can make it stay as gtklp? I don't mind the initial box appearing, as it gives me the option of a print preview in Galeon, and of printing to Gfax in Abiword and Evolution. I would just like its printing instruction to be gtklp instead of lpr, so I can check all the settings before printing anything.
