"Ronald L. Chichester" wrote: > > Has anyone figured out how to get WordPerfect to print to a local > printer designated under CUPS. WordPerfect only seems to want the old > lpr. I have designated my local printer as lp, and have set up > WordPerfect to print to lp. I know that CUPS sees the printer because > the test page prints correctly. However, WordPerfect doesn't seem to > catch on. > First, start the CUPS-LPD mini daemon, so that CUPS emulates an LPD daemon on the same machine with the same LPD queue names as there CUPS queues are named. See on http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hcups4.html#lpdcl how to set up the CUPS-LPD mini-daemon. Second, make sure that WordPerfect outputs PostScript, because CUPS translates the PostScript to the printer's native language. Do not use the printer-specific drivers of WordPerfect, choose something as "Generic PostScript Printer". Till
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