Andy Pepperdine wrote: > On Thursday 16 March 2006 20:14, Stephen Bosch wrote: > >>CPHennessy wrote: >> >>>On Sat March 11 2006 22:22, Stephen Bosch wrote: >>> >>>>Hello, all: >>>> >>>>I know this has been brought up before. I see it in the archives. I >>>>haven't seen a solution. >>>> >>>>Since upgrading to Openoffice 2.0, I find that must manually select the >>>>paper feed tray each time I print a new document. >>>> >>>>If I go into the Printer Administration tool in Linux and change the >>>>default tray to "<ignore>", then close the printer administrator, the >>>>change does not stick. When I open it up again, the tray is "Tray 1 >>>>(Manual Feed)" again. >>>> >>>>Yet, if I change the setting in "Printer Settings | Properties" in the >>>>*document*, then save the document, that document will always print >>>>properly -- that is, from the manual tray if it is charged, and from >>>>Tray 2 if the manual tray is not charged. This is the behaviour I expect >>>>and which I always had in Openoffice 1.x. >>>> >>>>I have already tried changing the setting in Preferences, with no effect. >>> >>>So you want to change the printer in the default template ? >>>Look at the documentation and FAQs in http://documentation.openoffice.org >>>so that you can change it and save it as above. >> >>I have already changed it in the template, but that change does not >>persist. I change the template, close OOo, start it again, check the >>printer settings, and again, it says "Tray 1 (Manual Feed)". I want it >>to say "ignore". >> >>I hope this isn't a bug. >> >>-Stephen- >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > I had a problem with default settings for a printer in the printer dialogue > not sticking. But the solution was to switch the printer driver. The system > (in my case Suse) recognised the printer, but failed to load the recommended > driver. When I changed that it all started to work properly. I can't say > whether this is related to your problem or not.
The trouble I have with this explanation is that it worked when I was running OOo 1.1.4 -- the problem only appeared when I upgraded to 2.0. I can see if there is an alternative driver, but I still think the problem is elsewhere. -Stephen- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
