Ralph Shumaker wrote:
Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On 7/19/06, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
> Ralph Shumaker wrote:
>
>>Ralph Shumaker wrote:
>>
>>>Some programs (on fc4, and was the same on fc3) correctly see that my
>>>default printer is my hp1100. Other programs, such as gnumeric
always
>>>come up defaulting to "generic postscript printer".
>>>
>>>Anyone know why?
Two questions:
1) Is the HP1100 a PostScript printer?
2) if you tell the program to print to "generic postscript printer"
what does it do?
On my system, "generic postscript printer" and HP2200 both make
printed sheets on the same piece of hardware.
carl
"generic postscript printer" starts printing a little too late (in
landscape) (running off the bottom of the page) and always spits out a
blank page after the printed page. The "HP1100" selection does not.
But it's not just a simple matter of telling gnumeric to use the hp1100
instead. First, it took a while to figure out how to tell gnumeric to
use a different printer. The only way I found was to tell it to print,
either with the print icon or File|Print, select the printer I want,
then click Cancel. (I was always using preview and printing from
there.) But when you tell it to use a different printer, gnumeric loses
*all* the File|PrintSetup settings. I have to go through setting them
back up on *all* the sheets. Some sheets are the same, some are not.
Anyway, this gets to be quite tedious, and generates a *STRONG* feeling
of resentment toward this insidious default that ignores *MY* default.
I've submitted a bug report to bugzilla, but it's only been a few days
and I haven't heard anything back.
But I got the idea to launch gnumeric from a command line (instead of
the icon) and I get some interesting messages when the print dialog
comes up. And the messages were different depending upon whether I
called for the print dialog after loading a gnumeric file or loading no
files:
In this example, the first line (Reading file...) appeared when I loaded
the file, but the rest appeared when calling for the print dialog.
<Loading-a-file>
$ gnumeric
Reading file:///home/rafael/health/bodyForLife/totalBody.gnumeric
Model not found, discarding config
** (gnumeric:5090): WARNING **: Could not find child for option
"PhysicalSize" with id "Letter"
** (gnumeric:5090): WARNING **: Could not set value of "PhysicalSize" to
"Letter"
** (gnumeric:5090): WARNING **: failed request with status 404
GnomePrintCupsPlugin-Message: The ppd file for the CUPS printer hp1100
could not be loaded.
** (gnumeric:5090): WARNING **: failed request with status 200
(gnumeric:5090): GnomePrintCupsPlugin-WARNING **: iconv does not support
ppd character encoding: ISOLatin1, trying CSISOLatin1
** (gnumeric:5090): WARNING **: failed request with status 200
** (gnumeric:5090): WARNING **: failed request with status 200
** (gnumeric:5090): WARNING **: failed request with status 200
** (gnumeric:5090): WARNING **: failed request with status 200
** (gnumeric:5090): WARNING **: failed request with status 200
** (gnumeric:5090): WARNING **: failed request with status 200
** (gnumeric:5090): WARNING **: failed request with status 200
</Loading-a-file>
<Just-launching-gnumeric-fresh>
$ gnumeric
Model not found, discarding config
** (gnumeric:5199): WARNING **: failed request with status 404
GnomePrintCupsPlugin-Message: The ppd file for the CUPS printer hp1100
could not be loaded.
** (gnumeric:5199): WARNING **: failed request with status 200
(gnumeric:5199): GnomePrintCupsPlugin-WARNING **: iconv does not support
ppd character encoding: ISOLatin1, trying CSISOLatin1
** (gnumeric:5199): WARNING **: failed request with status 200
** (gnumeric:5199): WARNING **: failed request with status 200
** (gnumeric:5199): WARNING **: failed request with status 200
** (gnumeric:5199): WARNING **: failed request with status 200
** (gnumeric:5199): WARNING **: failed request with status 200
** (gnumeric:5199): WARNING **: failed request with status 200
** (gnumeric:5199): WARNING **: failed request with status 200
</Just-launching-gnumeric-fresh>
Is any of this useful?
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