Ken Knecht wrote:
>
> I installed Kups and its required cups today in an effort to get my HP LJ3
> working as a local printer. LPR just doesn't seem to be available anywhere
> in ML 8. Alas, it was not to be! Kups shows up on the KDE menu now, but
> when I run it it says there are no ports (the LJ is connected to the
> parallel port and works just fine under dos).
>
> I'm very close to giving up on Mandrake 8. This is all supposed to be
> really simple stuff. I had no problems with in earlier Linux distributions
> - Mandrake, SuSE, RH, et al. Then there's other things like the crappy
> fonts in KDE and getting my 56K modem to work on the net when set to run
> faster than 38400.
Hello Ken,
It is easy. Don't give up. I'm not sure about KUPS but there is another
rpm for CUPS. Have you installed it?
In response to the font issue, I downloaded drakfont 0.58-13.1mdk
TrueType fonts manager as an update and install the Windows fonts
Setting up your fonts
Log in as root and select Configuration->Other-DrakFont-?Windows fonts
and select all
After the additional fonts are installed
Choose the Look'N'Feel->Fonts
Here is my set up under 1024 X 768:
General --------> helvetica 11 default
Fixed width > lucidatypewrite 10 iso8859-1
Desktop icon----> verdana 11 iso8859-1
File manager----> verdana 12 default
Toolbar---------> helvetica 11 default
Menu------------> helvetica 11 default
Window title----> verdana 11 iso8859-1
Taskbar---------> helvetica 10 default
I hope this helps.
Roman
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