Am Sonntag, 16. April 2006 15:45 schrieb Ross Johnson: > On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 12:35 +0200, Guido Pinkernell wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 16. April 2006 04:07 schrieb John Jason Jordan: > > > On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 11:03:56 +1000 > > > > > > Ross Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: > > > > As suggested earlier in this thread, use the OOo spadmin app. > > > > Maybe you missed it. (Run it as the 'root' user to install fonts > > > > to be available to all users on the machine). > > > > > > Spadmin will not do the job. > > > > > > First, it sees only "Generic Printer," which was installed by Ubuntu > > > as a default. It does not see my Laserjets. > > > > Are you using cups? See [1]. Anyway, setting up printer with spadmin > > is something different than installing fonts with spadmin. To get past > > the problem with "Generic Printer" (which is not necessary for > > installing fonts), in spadmin you create a PDF-Printer, say, and then > > add the command line you normally use to access your printer. In KDE I > > simply add "kprinter". > > Unless I've totally missed something, to get OOo applications to see the > fonts (i.e. in the font selection drop list etc) you need to install > them using spadmin. Maybe you can just drop them into the appropriate > directory, but I've always assumed that spadmin may do more than just > that. I also assume this means that the OOo printing component can then > also use them,
That's probably the case, however, John implied that one needs to set up a different printer than the "generic" to be able to install fonts with spadmin. Which isn't the case. I might have misunderstood or overread something, though. I didn't follow the whole thread. Guido --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
