Never mind. The secret was to type "kprinter" on top of the prefilled textbox that had "lpr" in it. Then I had a dialog box that allowed the pdf printer pulldown.
Greg On 8/17/07, Greg Freemyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/17/07, Patrick Shanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Greg Freemyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08-17-07 16:51]: > > > On 8/17/07, Patrick Shanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > * Greg Freemyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08-17-07 14:28]: > > > > > (a) I don't think DIA is a kde application, so (b) that won't help me > > > > > unless (c) I'm missing something. > > > > > > > > a) it's not > > > > b) it will > > > > c) you are > > > > > > Didn't have time to play games today. I installed dia on a windows > > > box and pdf export worked as designed. I'll try to get dia / pdf > > > printer to work in a couple weeks. > > > > There is no game(s). Sending the print output from dia to *kprinter* > > and selecting the *already* installed pdf option does it all. Someone > > else earlier told you to quit trying to make it hard, but.... > > I really am a Linux GUI newbie (CLI expert), and I only setup this > desktop a couple days ago but ... > > From dia I only have 2 print choices: "lpr" and "file". > > lpr causes the drawing to go to my printer. > > file I assume creates a PostScript file. I assume I could then run > ps2pdf from cli to convert it. > > FYI: The dia method is to export the drawing to a pdf, but that is > apparently broken in suse 10.2 and will shortly be fixed in factory. > > Sigh, so what am I missing that allows DIA to directly print to a pdf printer? > > Thanks > Greg > -- > Greg Freemyer > Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist > http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer > > The Norcross Group > The Intersection of Evidence & Technology > http://www.norcrossgroup.com > -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
