Re: Printing in Linux

2010-03-30 Thread Peter Alcibiades
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Re: Printing in Linux

2010-03-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 30/03/2010 12:18, Peter Alcibiades wrote: what I do know is that every other program I have ever downloaded onto my Ubuntu box that does text or images allows me to print to my printer. Yes, this is true. Its also true that a programming language without printing is useless.

Re: Printing in Linux

2010-03-29 Thread Peter Alcibiades
. No idea why. Lets hope that 4.5 improves things. -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Printing-in-Linux-tp1694324p1694775.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: Printing in Linux

2010-03-29 Thread Peter Alcibiades
end on this. Basically the only solution is probably to assume that Rev on Linux does not have a print function at all, somehow rewrite it to pass all the quantities into a file, and then print that in any other application. -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Printing-in-Linux

Re: Printing in Linux

2010-03-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 29/03/2010 16:43, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Well, it gets worse. The problem is, when installed, the print card into does not work on a real printer the way it does on cups-pdf. It must be that it varies with the printer being installed, and also with the distribution, and maybe also with

Re: Printing in Linux

2010-03-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Alcibiades wrote: Well, it gets worse. The problem is, when installed, the print card into does not work on a real printer the way it does on cups-pdf. It must be that it varies with the printer being installed, and also with the distribution, and maybe also with the screen resolution.

Re: Printing in Linux

2010-03-29 Thread Peter Alcibiades
or Debian or Ubuntu. So do text editors. Rev must be doing something very different. There are problems with Linux printing drivers, but they have to do with making printers work, not all do. They are not these kinds of problems. I gather that in 4.5 there is going to be a print to pdf in Rev

Re: Printing in Linux

2010-03-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Now I'm less sophisticated than Peter Alcibiades and Richard Gaskin when it comes to computery stuff; but what I do know is that every other program I have ever downloaded onto my Ubuntu box that does text or images allows me to print to my printer (whether it be connected directly to the Ubuntu

Printing in Linux

2010-03-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Is at best a mess: Mucking around with RunRev 4 I managed a PRINT CARD from the IDE menu; although it allowed me to print to .PS (Postscript ???) only, which is slightly pointless as I wanted to PRINT the thing (i.e. get something coming out of my printer). However a PRINT CARD command

found some lost printing in Linux 2.9

2008-03-04 Thread Peter Alcibiades
OK, the following seems to more or less work for printing cards. First you have to set the printerOutput to some file. Then print the relevant card using print This results in a postscript file appearing in the default folder. Then you do put shell(kprinter the print file) which brings up