Found more fun with OpenOffice (and seamingly StarOffice): http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=124112 > On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 09:22 +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote: > > Philipp, > > > > > > > OOo 2 tries the following: > > > > > > - try to load libcups.so.2 (the CUPS library) > > > - try to resolve the needed CUPS API symbols > > > - call cupsGetDests (basically get a list of know CUPS printers) > > > > > > if all of these steps succeed, then CUPS is used for printing, else > > > OOo > > > falls back to the older stuff it used before CUPS support was added > > > (including its own PPD files, mostly SGENPRT) > > > > > > The first step should succeed if CUPS is installed, libcups is > > > usually > > > installed in /usr/lib or so. > > > The second step could only fail if you for instance used a much older > > > CUPS version on the system where things fail. > > > The third setp fails if CUPS does not list the printers, this can be > > > due > > > to not opened ports in the firewall, the cups daemon not running etc. > > > basically if "lpc status" on the command line works and shows at > > > least > > > one printer (and you are sure that you are running the CUPS version > > > of > > > lpc), then CUPS should also work in OOo. > > > > > > Kind regards, pl
UGLY. Again, libcups.so is needed for gutenprint. But cups frontend is BROKE. Help please :) This message posted from opensolaris.org
