En/La G. Roderick Singleton ha escrit, a 05/02/05 17:06:
Hi G.,
I saw your earlier message but did not have an answer. I am not certain I have one now but there are some questions you have to answer first.
1. Are you using CUPS? 2. Have you set CUPS up to do the postscript conversion for you?
If yes to these, then you should have no problem setting up a postscript printer that OOo can use as Generic.
First thanks for answering. As to your question, now it gets complicated. I checked out the Brother website and they have no cups drivers for HL-1230. Following their instructions I set it up as a lpd printer selecting "Generic Linux lpd" as the type. This works for all "native" applications that print. Brother has no CUPS drivers for this printer. Before going to Brother had installed CUPS, Foomatic, etc. and found something that claimed to be a HL1230 driver. It never worked. It set up a dev called something like /dev/unknown-parallel-lp0 (or something like that). The printer is sitting on /dev/lp0 of course.
Next, I went to the openoffice website and they suggest installing gs. So I installed gs-esp. But now I can't add another printer. I run spadmin (as user or as root) and when I click "New Printer" the "add printer" is greyed out. I can add a scanner, etc. but not a printer. So I have 2 problems: I can't add a printer even if I could find a driver for the HL-1230 and I can't find a cups driver that's sensible for that printer.
So, yes I have cups installed. I'll check the documentation about CUPS doing the PS conversion (any hints gratefully accepted but I don't want to abuse your time) but probably I'll have to reinstall openoffice again which is a pain. I have a slow adsl connection .5Mps.
So thanks again for listening to my sad story.
Regards,
Jonathan
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