Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > On January 29, 2006 02:35, J. D. Leach wrote: > >>On Saturday 28 January 2006 11:20 pm, Arys P. Deloso wrote: >> >>>>Just found out that after I updated to 2006, Open Office 2 now throws >>>>an error when attempting to print a document. The printer will produce >>>>a test page and will also print from Kate, etc. >>>> >>>>Anyone run into this problem? >>> >>>What is the error exactly? >> >>Arys, >> >>The problem seems to be in OO. There was some glitch with 2006 sending >>printer commands to the printer but I reselved those issues by the simple >>expedient of deleting the printer in MCC then re-installing. >> >>In OO however, when I load a document and attempt to print by clicking the >>printer button in the toolbar, a dialog appears stating "Error sending >>document to printer". I have found though, that if I select "Print" from >>the drop-down menu on the menu bar and click on "Print" from the printer >>dialog, the document goes through just fine. To further spin ones head, if >>you then select the printer button from the toolbar, it will print without >>problems. Weird. >> >>I can work around the issue by always selecting print from the menu, but it >>sure is irritating to have to resort to such methods because of some >>internal program conflict. > > > Sounds like a problem in what it thinks your default printer is. The toolbar > button sends the doc directly to the default printer, or to the last printer > you used (at least, I think that's how it works, I could be wrong). > > For some reason, possibly related to deleting and reinstalling the printer, > the first time you try to print, it tries to send to some non-existent > printer. After you print to the real printer, the button knows where to send > the docs, but just for that session. > > Unfortunately, I can't tell you how to set OO.o's default printer. See if > there's something in options or printer settings (though I couldn't find > anything in 00.o 1; I'm not on 2 yet). Or you could uninstall and reinstall > 00.o. > Hi,
I have for a long time been running the "Official" OOo downloads, rather than the Mandriva release, and mine is installed in /opt/openoffice.org2.0. I don't know where mandriva puts it, but there should be in the ~.openoffice.org2.0/program/ directory a utility called "spadmin" Run as root it allows you to configure printers and fonts. This may help, otherwise I would recommend getting the download from OOo. It is a tarball of rpm's (about 100 MB) and I have had no problem installing. Just have to remember to run ./spadmin every upgrade to load my extra fonts. HTH -- Russell Butler Registered Linux user 334674 ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
