I have some very old (Wordstar 3) documents which I'd like to print to a plain text file with simple newlines, page headers and footers, etc, so I need a generic printer with a "print to file" option. There's no such printer available on OpenOffice, so I tried to add one.
The OpenOffice help tells me to change to the directory containing spadmin and run ./spadmin, which opens up, shows me the installed printers, and offers a "New Printer" button. When I press the "New Printer" button I get a small dialog titled "Add Printer" with a banner asking me to "Chose a device type". There are 4 radio button below this, and "Add a printer" is disabled. "Connect a fax device" is pre-checked, "Connect a PDF converter" is available, and "Import printers from StarOffice" is disabled. I obviously want to be able to click on the 1st disabled option, "Add a printer". Why is this option disabled and how to I enable it so I can access it? The same thing happens whether I run spadmin as my normal non-priv user or as root. -- Lindsay Haisley | "In an open world, | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | who needs Windows | available at 512-259-1190 | or Gates" | http://pubkeys.fmp.com http://www.fmp.com | | -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
