On Tuesday 31 Dec 2002 2:01 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 31 Dec 2002 1:40 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > > On Tuesday 31 Dec 2002 10:40 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > I have been looking at the instructions on Derek's page about > > > configuring fax from Open Office/Star Office. KDEprintfax is > > > definitely configured correctly, as I can send from KWord. However, I > > > have no pseudoprinter for fax in OO.o. I have created the new printer > > > as qtcups --stdin, but it doesn't seem to know about a fax printer. > > > What's wrong? What have I missed? > > > > > > Anne > > > > So when you print to the qtcups printer in Open Office do you get the > > QTCups dialogue window appear? Doesn't the drop down window in qtcups > > include all the same print devices you see when you print from Kword? > > I assume you are using CUPS as your print server? > > > > derek > > In OO.o I see my main printer setups (4 of them, all in <> brackets) + the > generic printer I have just set up
So this is the qtcups printer. What happens when you print to it? >and PDF > screen and PDF > press. In > Star Office I see the main printers both in <> brackets and again in plain > text. I also see Fax Printer and PDF printer, both as HP990C with Foomatic > + hpjs. Is this what's causing the problem? It's fairly academic, as I > don't need to have it in every app, but until I learn my way around it's > good to understand what's happening. > > I thought to change from OO.o to SO6, but am finding other issues, such as > the font problem mentioned elsewhere. Strange, I thought the two programs > were supposed to be almost identical. > > Anne The OpenOffice RPM supplied by mandrake has some slight modifications to its start up scripts to enable it to use the imported Windows fonts in the Drakfont directory. WIth OpenOffice downloaded from OO.org, and I suspect with StarOffice you need to use spadmin to gain access to the Drakfont fonts. derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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