Re: OpenOffice won't print anymore
I tried aptitude and apt-get and did get 77 packages that have refused to upgrade for the last 6 months installed using aptitude. apt-get didn't fix them. I now get: opie:/home/hgh# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. but openoffice still won't print, it shows release 1.1.2. Called the cups people for help and they showed me some tricks including resetting my ppd file on the server using: lpadmin -pcolor -i hpb46007.ppd.gz I also found that my openoffice printer settings had gotten reset to A4 paper during the upgrade rather than the default of letter, Hah Hah Hah very funny, got me again with that cheap trick. I guess I shot myself in the foot by taking the maintainers/developers config file rather than keeping my own. I also found out how to funnel a postscript file thru the print que unscathed and this fixed my crisp editor printing problems where the landscape options inside the postscript file where being overridden by setting up the print command on crisp like so: | lpr -o raw So it looks like my printing woe's are behind me. Thanks to everyone for the tips and support. hgh. -- Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice won't print anymore
Hi, Christian Schnobrich wrote: On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 13:15, Henry Hollenberg wrote: My OpenOffice printing just broke after a testing upgrade also. As of today, it's fixed on my machine. I haven't checked for the last few weeks, but today's upgrade replaced the whole of cups and OOo, nw printing works again. OOo is now directly linked to cups, I haven't decided yet if I really like this better as before; but it works again. Wrong. It uses cups' libraries if available with dlopen(). Versions since 1.1.1-3 did that too but there were some bugs in the code this was backported from. These were fixed in 1.1.2-2. And it *is* better... Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208 28D4 7CA5 19BB 7AD9 F859 90B0 248A EB7 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: OpenOffice won't print anymore
Christian Schnobrich wrote: Hi, i received you mail twice, but couldn't find it on the mailing list. Had you sent a copy there, people who know better than me would already have answered... On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 21:17, Henry Hollenberg wrote: What do you mean by a dist-upgrade? Is that an apt-get thing? I've been using dselect pointed to testing and just hitting ENTER 7 or 8 times. Yes, it's an apt-get thing. The command apt-get update updates the local package listings, and apt-get upgrade will upgrade any packages where newer versions are available. This should be quite similar to what you do with dselect. And then, there's apt-get dist-upgrade, that is a lot more thorough and smarter with dependency handling, but only needed when you upgrade your debian version, like woody - sarge. Or so I thought until a few days ago. As it turned out, I had to call a dist-upgrade to get the current version of both cups and OOo. But lo and behold, printing now works again. As a side note: I never got very fond of dselect. For normal system maintenance, apt-get update/upgrade is all you need (plus apt-get offers a download-only option I find very useful); as a package browser, someone recommended aptitude which I now like very much. Aptitude is quite similar to deslect on the first glance, but a lot more powerful and versatile. cu, Schnobs I tried aptitude and apt-get and did get 77 packages that have refused to upgrade for the last 6 months installed using aptitude. apt-get didn't fix them. I now get: opie:/home/hgh# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. but openoffice still won't print, it shows release 1.1.2. dpkg -l: ii openoffice.org 1.1.2-2high-quality office productivity suite ii openoffice.org 1.1.2-2OpenOffice.org office suite binary files ii openoffice.org 1.1.2-2+1 Debian specific parts of OpenOffice.org ii openoffice.org 1.1+20030814-3 OpenOffice.org office suite help (English) ii openoffice.org 1.1.2-2English (US) language package for OpenOffice ii openoffice.org 1.1.2-2OpenOffice.org MIME bindings for KDE What version of openoffice did your upgrade pull down? BTW, aptitude looks pretty nice, couldn't get the menu's to pull-down until I switched to a plain xterm. hgh. -- Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice won't print anymore
Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello, I do know what is going on, nevertheless there is an easy workaround: you can export our file as PDF, and print it. I can also print it to a PostScript file and then ftp that straight to the printer.but either one is a pain. Was wondering when OpenOffice was going to be fixed? hgh. -- Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice won't print anymore
On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 13:15, Henry Hollenberg wrote: My OpenOffice printing just broke after a testing upgrade also. As of today, it's fixed on my machine. I haven't checked for the last few weeks, but today's upgrade replaced the whole of cups and OOo, nw printing works again. OOo is now directly linked to cups, I haven't decided yet if I really like this better as before; but it works again. I had to order a dist-upgrade, though; seemingly the change brought so much new stuff that a simple upgrade would leave the printing system alone. cu, Schnobs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice won't print anymore
Hello, I do know what is going on, nevertheless there is an easy workaround: you can export our file as PDF, and print it. hth, Jerome Christian Schnobrich wrote: On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 13:15, Henry Hollenberg wrote: My OpenOffice printing just broke after a testing upgrade also. As of today, it's fixed on my machine. I haven't checked for the last few weeks, but today's upgrade replaced the whole of cups and OOo, nw printing works again. OOo is now directly linked to cups, I haven't decided yet if I really like this better as before; but it works again. I had to order a dist-upgrade, though; seemingly the change brought so much new stuff that a simple upgrade would leave the printing system alone. cu, Schnobs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice won't print anymore
Christian Schnobrich wrote: Hello, I'm running sarge. After my last upgrade, Openoffice stopped printing. I'm not able to properly track the problem down (more on that below), all I really know boils down to it used to work and now it doesn't. My OpenOffice printing just broke after a testing upgrade also. This seems to be a longstanding issue on a large piece of software. I also checked the printer setup utility with no luck. Mozilla prints fine. I removed the Xprint piece a long time ago due to printing issues with mozilla. So that makes 2/5 of my production apps shut down by debian upgrades. OpenOffice can't print Crisp can't print Adobe acrobat prints xfigprints Mozilla prints I've been using linux for 8 years and debian for 4 and I have debugged lots of problems and seem to be getting no where with these printing issues over a 3 month period. Does anyone have any idea why printing has been getting so hammered lately in debian? Any idea how to fix the current set of problems? hgh. -- Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice won't print anymore
Christian Schnobrich wrote: I'm running sarge. After my last upgrade, Openoffice stopped printing. I'm not able to properly track the problem down (more on that below), all I really know boils down to it used to work and now it doesn't. To manage my printer's capabilities (like paper tray, draft mode, ...), I use xpp. Print jobs get piped to xpp and are eventually submitted to cups from there. Since my last upgrade, print jobs from OpenOffice apparently won't ever reach xpp. That's all I know, no error messsage, nothing. Sounds like the problem reported in Bug #250981 for openoffice.org-bin. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OpenOffice won't print anymore
Hello, I'm running sarge. After my last upgrade, Openoffice stopped printing. I'm not able to properly track the problem down (more on that below), all I really know boils down to it used to work and now it doesn't. Posting to debain-user-german, I got no help, but three more people having similar difficulties. So at least it seems as if I'm not alone in my misery. Like me, they hoped for the problem to be fixed in the next upgrade, but as it drags on... what can I do? Here's what I can find out: To manage my printer's capabilities (like paper tray, draft mode, ...), I use xpp. Print jobs get piped to xpp and are eventually submitted to cups from there. Since my last upgrade, print jobs from OpenOffice apparently won't ever reach xpp. That's all I know, no error messsage, nothing. I can print from other apps, and from OOo I may print to file and submit the job manually, so at least I have a workaround. I can set up a 'new printer' in OOo's printer administration, but a) this one won't work despite it reports the testpage to have been printed sucessfully; b) the new printer will disappear when oopadmin is closed, and never actually makes it into any printer selection of the actual OOo apps. Talking about oopadmin, my former default printer has vanished. I now have a default printer pointing to cups that doesn't work, can not be removed, and was never set up by me. cu, Schnobs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
