Aaron Kulkis wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
jdd wrote:
Michel Rasquin wrote:
(I have a couple of documents which need to be printed out rather
quickly (but not as a matter of "life or death") so if someone can
provide a quick answer I would be most grateful.)
as a quick fix to printing problems, it's possible to print to pdf
(export to pdf with ooo) and print the pdf document
sometime it works...
jdd
<Sigh> Isn't it beyond belief that a piece of software (Megabytes
big!) provided by one of the biggest companies has to be 'fiddled'
before the damn thing will print a (simple) document produced using
this software (OpenOffice)?
Due more to good luck than anything, last night I found a simple
reference, in a message in the Sun's OpenOffice 'help' forum, which
provided me with the information to get OO to print. As you suggest
in your response, for which I am grateful, it ALL has to do with
outputting the document to a pdf file and then printing that.
Hmmm. I've never had to do anything like that... I wonder
if some something changed in a recent revision.
I cannot say if anything has, or has not, changed 'in a recent revision'.
All I can say is that in the 'standard' install of 10.2, and now 10.3, I
cannot print in OO using the Lexmark 4039Plus laser printer - which
prints very well during the Test Print in the OpenSuse printer setup -
and prints all documents using the KWrite et alia.
The whole process involves trickery worthy of Harry Potter.
I used Microsoft Office for years, using the printer I mention in my
original post (the Lexmark 4039 plus), and it NEVER even considered
not printing at the first attempt.
Strange
Why 'Strange?
In many instances Windows works much better than 'Linux'.
Why is OpenOffice such a bitch about printing?
Or is it a problem with openSuse? Don't know.
I've never had a problem printing from OO on SuSE.
Then you are most fortunate.
If you go the OO forum you will find complaints dated 23 January 2008
about not being able to print.
Anyway, many thanks for your response and I have finally
> got OpenOffice to *print* a document!
If this is typical for the latest versions of OO, I'm
surprised the code made it past the beta-test stage.
From the responses you would have read here, this is not 'typical' for
the latest version of OO to behave - BUT I have to add that only today I
updated my 10.3 system (which included the latest OO upgrades) and I
*STILL* cannot print a (*.odt) document.
Ciao.
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