On Sunday 05 September 2004 10:17, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > On the printing dialogue there is an option "alternative printer > command", click on it the user could input something onto a text box. > > How does anyone use it? I tried to fill "/usr/bin/lpr", "/usr/bin/lpr > $1", "/usr/bin/lpr %" all of them does not print, but on my Gentoo Linux > if I don't use alternative printer command it prints fine. > > Could not find the usage on Google.
Hi, See: http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&sm=printing&page=print1 examples: "kprinter" "xpp" "gtklp" "xwprint" or any other graphical front end, provided they are installed properly. I have tested all of them on Fedora or Suse 9.x and they work fine with Scribus. I have found kprinter on KDE 3.2+ to be particularly good at supporting things like n-up printing in Scribus. Despite some people having issues with CUPS, if Scribus is compiled with CUPS support *and* CUPS is properly setup, this is the easiest was to fully access all of the features of your printer. Also one note of caution. In general, Scribus is one of the few applications on Linux which generates high end level 3 PS. (Some versions of Mozilla do too.) Some of the command line tools may not work properly with Scribus PS output, as it appears to me they assume PS Level 2. This is one of those areas where Scribus is "pushing the envelope" on Linux. Hope that helps, Peter
