James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
Ralph Shumaker wrote:
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?
...
"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>
[snip]
FINAL UPDATE
In all my poking and prodding, changing things and changing them back, I
must have missed some change back somewhere and my printing system
stopped working altogether.
So I used yum to uninstall cups and it informed me that it would have to
uninstall a ton of other programs for dependencies. Now, some of these
dependencies made absolutely no sense. I mean, really! Why on earth
would gnome-sudoku have to be uninstalled just because cups is gone?!
But whatever.
I made a copy of the text detailing what all was going to be uninstalled
and saved that list. I went ahead with the uninstall, only then
realizing that I couldn't find my install disks.
After several hours (over a day) on my dialup, yum finally finished
reinstalling everything with only a few minor bumps in the road, and
praise be! Printing worked again.
Later, I discovered that gnumeric was now honoring my choice for a
printer in my saved documents. It still defaulted to "generic
postscript", and generic postscript still defaulted to "A4" paper. But
at least when I select a printer for a given tab of a worksheet and save
the file, it now has the decency to load back in with that printer and
its particular settings for that page. Hmmm, the subject line still
stands, but at least it is tolerable now. I never felt the pinch nearly
so much in programs other than gnumeric. In that program, working
around the problem was painfully tedious, not to mention repetitive.
So, I ended up having to take the normal windows-style route, but at
least it worked out.
Thanks for all the excellent suggestions.
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