On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:49:07 +0100 Philipp Lohmann - Sun Germany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 1) When I go to print a document to any of my big Laserjets, half the > > features of the printer are not listed in the print dialog box, even > > obvious things like paper tray selection. If I print from Scribus they > > ARE listed, and they are all listed in CUPS too, so the problem is > > somewhere in OO.o. > > OOo actually cares about the constraints in the PostScript Printer > Descriptions (PPD) it gets from CUPS. Example: before you can actually > use Tray 2 many a PPD will state that Tray 2 is optional because tray 2 > is actually a hardware option that may or may not be installed. > Therefore the corresponding PPD will have a constrain that says one can > select Tray 2 only if it is installed. You can do this by switching to > the "device" tab page in the printer properties dialog. Only after you > have enabled said Tray 2 (in our example) you can select Tray 2 as > output bin. But the features ARE "turned on" in CUPS. Proof of this is that the features are available in the Scribus print dialog box. That they are avalable in CUPS and Scribus is also proof that the correct PPD file is installed. > The same is true for many paper formats; they are constrained to the > corresponding input tray being installed. > > If you cannot select a feature then this is usually due to the PPD that > OOo gets from CUPS. But I CAN select the paper trays in other applications. > > 2) Of the few features that do appear in the print dialog box (e.g., > > duplex v. simplex, PostScript level, color v. grayscale, color depth), > > none are "sticky." Every time I go to print a document the dialog box > > comes up simplex, 24-bit color from driver, etc., so I have to go > > through and reset them to 8-bit grayscale, duplex, PostScript level 2, > > and so on. This is so annoying. Why can't it remember at least how I > > last printed this document as part of the document file? And why can't > > I set these things in Preferences somewhere? > > Use the spadmin program for that purpose which is OOo's printer > administration utility. Spadmin is evidently not available for Ubuntu-64 Breezy. I typed "spadmin" from a command line and got "command not found," so it's not installed. I tried to install it, but it is not listed in Synaptic. Thanks for the suggestions, but evidently OO.o is not CUPS enabled. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
