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From "Brian Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date 06/09/2005 - 08:48 am
Subject Re: [users] Faxing from openoffice with fax4CUPS
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> 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.
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