Aaron Kulkis wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
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?
Strange because this is the first time I've come across
such a thing in 25 years of using Unix and 10 years of
using Linux
Gosh, you have been miraculously protected from all the nasties for so
may years! :-) .
In many instances Windows works much better than 'Linux'.
If you define "much better" to mean you have a lot of time
to constantly repair things when it auto-destructs part or
all of itself.
No, I do not define "much better" in this way.
I have used Windows XP since it came on the market and I have not had to
"repair" it for more then, say, a couple of times - and this only
because of my own fault.
The claim that XP "auto-destructs" is nothing more than a one-eyed view
by Linux zealots, and others, who claim that Windows is crap compared to
Linux-based distros.
I don't trust Windows, and the apps associated with it, for all the
reasons mentioned in this and other forums as well as in magazine
articles written by people who know what Windows is all about, but I
would not support your statement in what you state in the above quoted
paragraph.
I find windows to be an absolute pain, both as a
user and as an administrator.
Windows is certainly a "pain" in many ways but as a user it doesn't send
me into an apoplectic state. That it annoys the heck out of me is true
and which is why I switched to a Linux-based distro (SuSe being the
obvious choice after trying out most of the other distros over the years).
Not being an "administrator" of a Windows-based system I cannot comment
on your experiences with it (as you intimate above) but - to be very
realistic - if administrating a Windows setup was so very bad then
either nobody would be using Windows or the Windows system
administrators are masochists and/or are too stupid to change jobs so as
not to work with Windows.
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.
Why is OpenOffice such a bitch about printing?
Actually no, that's rather typical for Linux and Unix both.
The only systems I've ever been on in which a printer
suddenly "stopped working" or was unavailable from
an application has been Windows.
Well (and there must be a moral here), I have NEVER has a problem with
printing in Windows - even printing using a NETGEAR print server on the
computers on my home network.
"You win some, you lose some", as they say in movies.
I'm not saying that your case does not exist...I'm just
saying that it's far RARER in Linux than in Windows.
If you say so - see above.
If you go the OO forum you will find complaints dated 23 January
2008 about not being able to print.
The above must be a typo for which I apologise - considering that
*today* is 18 January 2008 :-) .
OK, so there's a bug in the software, which apparently
isn't in the version I'm currently using, and will
probably get tracked down very quickly.
Have you downloaded the latest build, to see if it
works now?
I am using the very latest version of OO (on both 10.2 and 10.3), and
nothing has changed.
Ciao.
--
Past experience, if not forgotten, is a guide for the future.
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
