G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 12:14:16 -0500, Joe wrote:
I usually print to file so I can go on to something else without waiting
for my slow printer, etc.
It works fine, but every time I select it, it forgets all the settings
from the last print and I have to do a bunch of dialog stuff over and
over.
I have a question. What are the settings in Tools - Options -
OpenOffice.org Writer - Compatibility Tools ? Printer metrics should be
checked. If not enable it
OK. I did, But although I have 2.0 installed, I've never used it yet
(except to open a wpd file) and that option does not appear to exist in
1.1.5. So I don't see where this is going.
The settings I have to change are exactly as below. I'm not clear on
what printer metrics has to do with anything - but this could be because
I haven't used 2.0 for anything yet.
What I would like OOo (1.1.5 or 2.0.x - Linux X86) to do is:
When I want to Print to file, I would press a button on a tool bar -
probably linked to a macro.
Then it would do a print, select "To file", set the starting directory
to $HOME/tmp, and turn off automatic file type extensions (don't add the
".ps" on the end of the name.)
How are you going to distinguish between different output formats from
different programs without an extension?
I've been doing this for over a year with no problem. All my major apps
put out postscript and my printer utility detects that. Anything else
is filtered through enscript which turns it into postscript so I can see
the page count to handle jobs with even or odd page count. Unless I do
something stupid (which does happen on occasion) everything works fine.
[snipped]
In any case, you might like to have a look at an existing macro that does
similar actions.
http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/various_topics/StarXpert_OOoMultiSave.zip
I'll have a look at that. Thanks.
Joe
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