On Fri, 2014-03-14 at 10:45 +, Caolán McNamara wrote:
On (non-MacOSX) unix we have spadmin the printer administration tool.
a) you can connect a fax device
So, what I've done for fax devices is to now detect fax4cups via its
Dial property and send it the user-provided fax number by
On (non-MacOSX) unix we have spadmin the printer administration tool.
Over the years the amount of stuff it does has been reduced, e.g. it no
longer admins fonts, that's done through fontconfig now. It now no
longer provides a font-substitution tab page as that's redundant
functionality now. It
Le 14/03/2014 11:45, Caolán McNamara a écrit :
Hi Caolan,
Judging from the posts I have seen on the user list since LO came into
existence, there are still some use cases where CUPS does not provide
the required support and people need to be able to fall back to spadmin
for printing.
The fact
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 12:31:50PM +0100, Alex Thurgood wrote:
Le 14/03/2014 11:45, Caolán McNamara a écrit :
Hi Caolan,
Judging from the posts I have seen on the user list since LO came into
existence, there are still some use cases where CUPS does not provide
the required support and
On Fri, 2014-03-14 at 12:31 +0100, Alex Thurgood wrote:
The fact that spadmin could be used to add Type1 PS fonts, which are no
longer supported, if I understand correctly, has also been, and
continues to be, an issue that crops up on the user list (and possibly
also in BZ) for some people.
Le 14/03/2014 13:40, Caolán McNamara a écrit :
Have you a link to an example because type 1 fonts just work, there
was no removal of support for those. The add fonts ability of spadmin
was removed in 2012 and prior to that was only visible if your system
didn't support fontconfig which is a
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 02:37:06PM +0100, Alex Thurgood wrote:
The last one, in particular (seocnd to last comment), provides a
workaround for creating AFM/PFM files on Linux, but note that this
didn't used to be a requirement, before the switch to CUPS printing was
made - previously, Type1
Le 14/03/2014 11:45, Caolán McNamara a écrit :
We might want to get rid of this page too at the same time :
https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Setting_up_Printer_and_Fax_Under_UNIX_Based_Platforms
Alex
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On Fri, 2014-03-14 at 14:37 +0100, Alex Thurgood wrote:
Questions / bugs about PS Type1 support :
http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/2631/adobe-postscript-type-1-font-not-displaying-in-libreoffice-3532-mac/
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37453
Le 14/03/2014 14:37, Alex Thurgood a écrit :
Let me add to the list :
https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=70184
Alex
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Le 14/03/2014 14:37, Alex Thurgood a écrit :
Call me a killjoy, but this one looks related too :
https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38825
The user here, printing on older business printers, had to configure a
specific font directory containing only PS Type 1 fonts in order for
On Fri, 2014-03-14 at 15:13 +0100, Alex Thurgood wrote:
Le 14/03/2014 14:37, Alex Thurgood a écrit :
Call me a killjoy, but this one looks related too :
https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38825
The user here, printing on older business printers, had to configure a
Hi All,
From my last job in retail-supplying I know a lot of Fax is still used
in countries like Belgium, UK and a lot of African countries.
We wheren't communicating directly between the faxes and libreoffice,
but I wouldn't say that Fax isn't used anymore.
Also in the legal the Fax is still
Hi Caolán,
Caolán McNamara wrote (14-03-14 11:45)
So the question is if any part of
spadmin is still useful? Is there anyone still configuring fax machines
or using the other options there, and if so for what purpose ?
I would not be surprised.. but will ask some contacts to be more sure
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