> Greg Madden wrote: > > >On Wednesday 25 May 2005 07:37 am, Brian Johnson wrote: > > > > > >>I have fax4CUPS working with my mgetty+sendfax backend and I can use > >>lpr to print from any linux machine on my LAN to fax out through the > >>faxmodem > >> > >>I'd like to troubleshoot why openoffice is unable to start a fax job > >>when I print to the CUPS printer already showing up on the printer > >>list supplied by CUPS (rather than add another printer to run the lpr > >>command directly and have 2 printers listed which would confuse > >>users) > >> > >>I've run spadmin to change the type of the CUPS printer to a fax one > >>and openoffice prompts for a fax number but a print job is not > >>started in the localhost CUPS or on the server that has the faxmodem > >> > >>Additionally, I am unable to attach a command to the CUPS faxprinter > >>in spadmin > >> > >>Any help debugging this? I am sure that hundreds of people would be > >>interested in getting such a system to work. > >> > >> > > > >I used the following web site to configure faxing from OO.writer. Not > >sure if your specific method is explained there. > > > >http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/fax_cups.html > >
No it isn't. Here's some more info: 1. I was using the Fedora Core 3 Openoffice 1.1.3 package which I've now been told includes more cups interactive code that the rest of the 1.1.x series but less than 2.x will. My observations in the first post were based on that software that shows the cups printers in spadmin and I although I could redefine one of the as a fax printer for oo.org, spadmin wouldn't save the fax command for the apps to use. 2. when I switched to 1.1.4 from openoffice.org, the cups printers no longer showed up in spadmin (although they showed up in oowriter and other apps). Therefore I could add a fax printer in spadmin with the same name as a cups printer and it would use that instead. The problem was that although cups printers showed up in the other apps, the cup printer classes did not (we use printer classes so that wasn't really a solution, just a different set of problems). I'm told 2.0 should show cups printer classes but I had trouble running it to confirm. This solution would still require using spadmin to configure each workstation and/or for each user. Also, for road warriors, this solution leaves the fax device showing on the printer list even when it is not available (ie when they are not on the LAN) 3. I have submitted a feature request for oo.org to auto detect cups printers using the fax4cups drivers (and ppd files) and treat them as fax printers so using spadmin would not be necessary. This solution would not require individual workstation and/or user manual configuration by the LAN admin. Summary: Using the fax4cups driver on top of your fax backend allows a network device sharing ability that only requires cups to be running and configured for lan browsing on each linux workstation (a common *nix environment). With the addition of the requested feature, you would add a fax device to a machine and it would share itself throughout the lan automatically. The added ability of cups to accept print jobs from the internet or vpn (if configured to do so), makes this a useful faxing solution even for road warriors The feature request is at http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=49980 if you think it is a good idea, log in and vote for it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
