On Wed September 13 2006 02:50, Chris Jewell wrote:
> I just built OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 from the ports collection on FreeBSD
> 5.5-RELEASE. When I attempt to select a printer for my document, the
> pull-down list contains no printers.
>
> I am using the standard BSD print spooler, and I *do* have the printer
> listed in /etc/printcap, with GhostScript as a filter to print PS
> data, and a pass-through for plain text or PCL. I can print
> PostScript on it successfully using Mozilla (built from source on
> FreeBSD), Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 (a Linux binary running in the Linux
> emulation mode of FreeBSD), KDE, or command-line tools.
>
> I used to have OOo 1.whatever running under Linux, and I don't recall
> any problem getting OOo to use my printer in that environment.
>
> What do I need to do to make the printer known to OpenOffice.org 2?
> Thank you.
>
> My temporary, admittedly silly, workaround, is to export my document
> as a PDF, the print the PDF file from AcroRead.
Probably a stupid question but ... have you tried comfiguring the printer
using CUPS ?
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