[newbie] wp8 network printing
Hi, Thanks to responses from the list, I now have WP8 functioning on Mandrake 8.1. Next question, has anyone managed to get this to print to a network printer. Particularly, a HP2200dn StarOffice has no problem picking up the configured printer but WP always has been a bear. TIA, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] WP8 + Canon BJC4200 = 0
Hi all, I have not yet been able to print to my Canon inkjet printer from Wordperfect 8 in a satisfying way. Printing through a somewhat comparable driver (BJC 330), I immediately get presented a dialog with a printer problem. I can print 1 page, through the postscript printer. That page prints fine, and then a page comes from the printer stating: Error: /rangecheck in .installpagedevice Operand stack: --nostringval-- and a lot more that I will spare you of. After some complaints about "Dictionary stack" it ends with: Current allocation mode is local Current file position is 25365 The file pos. sounds plausible, the print file length for the first page is about 25K. But I don't want a plausible number, I just want my pages printed. *grin* Does anyone have a clue what I can do next, apart from buying a different printer? - I checked at mandrakeuser.org - I checked at the wordperfect site - I changed from lpr to xpp (tip at mandrakeuser.org) by creating a symlink lpr - xpp after renaming lpr to lpr_orig I like WP as a text editor. It is superfast and can handle just about anything. Except my printer. Printing from Abiword, Gnumeric and GIMP is no problem, so the printer is working. It is something with WP. But what... Thanks, Paul -- An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.31
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Yes, I have buttons like this. I thought it was intentional (free version and all). Haven't had any time to work with it. I'm interested in solutions others have. -Gary- In a message dated 10/14/2000 6:27:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone have this problem? The buttons for word perfect, the linux version, will not show up. They are there, you can click on them, but the all look like a garbled mess. Any help would be appriciated. ~Lance
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have this problem? The buttons for word perfect, the linux version, will not show up. They are there, you can click on them, but the all look like a garbled mess. Any help would be appriciated. ~Lance == Just a guess here, Lance, but I'll bet you're running at 24bpp color depth. Try 16 or 32 and I bet that problem corrects itself. Mike "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing and dreadful idolatry took place there!" Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
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Lance: I was able to clear up the problem by changing the video color depth from 24 bit to 32 bit. The tip came from a WordPerfect 8 user group which I found through: http://linux.corel.com/support/wp8_linux.htm HTH Regards - - Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have this problem? The buttons for word perfect, the linux version, will not show up. They are there, you can click on them, but the all look like a garbled mess. Any help would be appriciated. ~Lance
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Anyone have this problem? The buttons for word perfect, the linux version, will not show up. They are there, you can click on them, but the all look like a garbled mess. Any help would be appriciated. ~Lance
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On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Paul wrote: I went to www.download.com, found the Linux section and searched for 'wordperfect'. And there it was. Ta, Ron. -- The moving cursor writes, and having written, blinks on. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
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I disagree. The fonts look awful (why can't WP just use the fonts provided by the OS? I've got my truetype fonts working now and they look fine in other applications). WP also insists on using its own printer drivers (what's the OS for guys?), and my printer isn't listed (works with other apps via pdq/ghostscript though). Then there are other minor irritants that help explain why Word captured the market: you can't open two documents at once, scrolling moves the cursor so you have to press page up or page down twice if its in the wrong position. But the fonts and the printer support are the real downsides in my opinion. Totally unnecessary too, having your own fonts and printer drivers was a big asset in the DOS days but has no place in a modern OS. --- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was Oct 12, 2000, 10:58, when Pungki keyboarded: WP8 is indeed free, works great, is fast, and has all the features you can dream of :) Paul Hi. I'm using StarOffice (SO) in my LM 7.1. But my SO was running slow (but not too slow). So, I want to change SO to WP8. Anyone here using WP8 ? If yes, please share me about your experience, and then, is WP8 freeware program ? Thanks for your help. -Pungki -- RESPONDEZ S'IL VOUS PLAID Honk if you're Scottish. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=- __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
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"Pungki" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I'm using StarOffice (SO) in my LM 7.1. But my SO was running slow (but not too slow). So, I want to change SO to WP8. Anyone here using WP8 ? If yes, please share me about your experience, and then, is WP8 freeware program ? Thanks for your help. -Pungki I use both and find both useful. For me SO does a better job of importing complex M$ Word docs and keeping the formatting straight. WP8 is free for download, and unlike its more recent update runs natively w/o wine. May as well give it a try. YMMV, Mike "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing and dreadful idolatry took place there!" Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
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I just started looking at it and it looks very good indeed. There is a free version available for download (or in the CDs of several books on it) which is very functional and only lacks a very few items available in the paid version. Jeff On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, you wrote: Hi. I'm using StarOffice (SO) in my LM 7.1. But my SO was running slow (but not too slow). So, I want to change SO to WP8. Anyone here using WP8 ? If yes, please share me about your experience, and then, is WP8 freeware program ? Thanks for your help. -Pungki -- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User 348854
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Pungki wrote: I'm using StarOffice (SO) in my LM 7.1. But my SO was running slow (but not too slow). So, I want to change SO to WP8. Anyone here using WP8 ? If yes, please share me about your experience, and then, is WP8 freeware program ? WP8 is NOT freeware. I have been trying to use it, and have had no luck: I bought Corel Linux for the included WP8, but the *** thing wont install under a Mandrake installation, can only install it as part of a complete Corel Linux install. And I found thet the Corel Linux install is rather crippled when compared to Mandrake 7.1. (lots of options missing, they dont want you toupgrade/add from anywhere but their own site, and the .deb file for WP8 is not recognized as such buy either Kpackage or even Debian's own DPKG) I contacted them a number of times for help installing it, and they were most reluctant to answer, and did not give me any valid advice. All in all, a complete loss of time. Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the sunny banks of the Paraguay River. -- Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James M. Barrie --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
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On Mon, 17 Nov 2036, Michael Scottaline wrote: I use both and find both useful. For me SO does a better job of importing complex M$ Word docs and keeping the formatting straight. WP8 is free for download, and unlike its more recent update runs natively w/o wine. Did youmanage to find a download in a usable (=.rpm ;-) form ? If so, please let us know where ! TIA, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -- Salvor Hardin --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
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I'm using StarOffice (SO) in my LM 7.1. But my SO was running slow (but not too slow). So, I want to change SO to WP8. Anyone here using WP8 ? If yes, please share me about your experience, and then, is WP8 freeware program ? Thanks for your help. I'm using WP Office, which comes with WP9. It's pretty nice, with some warts caused by the fact that the programs are running under Wine. You can download a freeware version of WP but in my experience it's not as functional as their commercial product. Cheers --- Larry
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WP8 is indeed free, works great, is fast, and has all the features you can dream of :) Depends on who's doing the dreaming Paul :-) WP running under Wine is no dream come true. Cheers --- Larry
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I disagree. The fonts look awful (why can't WP just use the fonts provided by the OS? I've got my truetype fonts working now and they I agree with everything you've said. I wonder, however, if you're not describing the downloadable version as, while I found the font selection to be abyssmal with that version, there's a ton of fonts available in WPOffice. It also comes with Fontastic which makes it a piece of cake to import fonts from Word. As for printing, it uses system printing so there's nothing new to set up and I've had no problems in that area. The apps do load somewhat slowly because of Wine I guess. I also get some glitches from time to time in the loading process that I attribute to Wine. Other than that, it's not bad. Still, I'd buy MS Office in a heartbeat if it were available. downsides in my opinion. Totally unnecessary too, having your own fonts and printer drivers was a big asset in the DOS days but has no place in a modern OS. Your "own" is a funny construct here as most people's frustration when moving from MS Office to somewhere else is that MS has its "own" fontset and that's the one we want. Truth is, the publishing industry doesn't much like true-type fonts as most of the prepress and print stuff thinks in Adobe. Cheers --- Larry
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Dear Pungki, Having used WP for many years, I have it on my Linux box. WP8 is almost as good as the last DOS version. Turbolinux 3.6 had a "lite" version of WP8 included with the distro. Others may have as well. I did buy the full version, which is ok, but a few things like printing envelopes and labels don't work on Mandrake 7.1. What will happen with WP8 now that Microsoft bought Corel last week? barton Hi. I'm using StarOffice (SO) in my LM 7.1. But my SO was running slow (but not too slow). So, I want to change SO to WP8. Anyone here using WP8 ? If yes, please share me about your experience, and then, is WP8 freeware program ? Thanks for your help. -Pungki
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What will happen with WP8 now that Microsoft bought Corel last week? They didn't "buy" Corel, they bought some of its stock. As for WP8, Corel's selling WP9 so maybe that's an answer to your question, though I doubt it. Cheers --- Larry
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It was Oct 12, 2000, 07:22, when Renaud OLGIATI keyboarded: I use both and find both useful. For me SO does a better job of importing complex M$ Word docs and keeping the formatting straight. WP8 is free for download, and unlike its more recent update runs natively w/o wine. Did youmanage to find a download in a usable (=.rpm ;-) form ? I downloaded the big guil00.gz file and that worked fine. I did a tar -xvzf on it, ran "runme" and it went like butter down a hot plate. Paul -- RESPONDEZ S'IL VOUS PLAID Honk if you're Scottish. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
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It was Oct 12, 2000, 19:20, when Renaud OLGIATI keyboarded: On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Paul wrote: I downloaded the big guil00.gz file and that worked fine. I did a tar -xvzf on it, ran "runme" and it went like butter down a hot plate. Paul, por favor, WHERE did you download it from ? I went to www.download.com, found the Linux section and searched for 'wordperfect'. And there it was. Should still be there, so go and have fun! Paul -- RESPONDEZ S'IL VOUS PLAID Honk if you're Scottish. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
[newbie] wp8
Hi. I'm using StarOffice (SO) in my LM 7.1. But my SO was running slow (but not too slow). So, I want to change SO to WP8. Anyone here using WP8 ? If yes, please share me about your experience, and then, is WP8 freeware program ? Thanks for your help. -Pungki
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It was Oct 12, 2000, 10:58, when Pungki keyboarded: WP8 is indeed free, works great, is fast, and has all the features you can dream of :) Paul Hi. I'm using StarOffice (SO) in my LM 7.1. But my SO was running slow (but not too slow). So, I want to change SO to WP8. Anyone here using WP8 ? If yes, please share me about your experience, and then, is WP8 freeware program ? Thanks for your help. -Pungki -- RESPONDEZ S'IL VOUS PLAID Honk if you're Scottish. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
[newbie] WP8 Epson Stylus Color 200
Hi, Is there anyone can help me, how to print with Stylus 200. I'm using WordPerfect 8, from Mandrake 6.0, I always get a bad printing result, when i'm using *-WP fonts. I've print with several Stylus Driver : Stylus Color, Stylus 800, LQ1170, LQ850 etc. (none driver for Stylus 200) and have the same result, also with scallable fonts. and why i could only use printer fonts in WP8 ? It feels like doing job in m$-dos, like printing in Wordstar 7. is there no more fonts for WP ?(Truetype fonts or something). also the print is taking more ink than when i print in m$-word 97 (not as economic as in word97). ThanX Luqman Registered User #140544 LiNUX
[newbie] WP8 Preferences fail -- Major flaw?
Dear friends: I have been using WP8 for Linux for over six months. I used to use WP6 for Dos and Windows years ago when, like so many others, I was persuaded to follow the standard (pun intended) and switched to MSword 2, 6 and then even for a while 97. I do not wish to discuss the merits of WordPerfect vs MSWord in this message. Rather, I would like to inquire whether any of you have discovered the same problem that I have, by now, repeatedly encountered: After you install WP8 for Linux, whether as user or root, whether in text mode or graphically, whether the download version or the retail, whether in root's directory or in user's directory (I have done all of these several times over), you have to configure its Preferences as "adm", that is, adminstritator. The "adm" is definted by where and who installed WP8. I am a single user on a single Linux machine (AMD k6-2 400 Mghrtz, 128 megs of RAM) and can, therefore, technically be an adm either as root or user. Each time I installed WP8, I first UNinstalled the earlier version properly (by ./remove.wp) in the WP directory and then deleted completely the .wprc folder that appears in your /home/user directory. It is a hidden directory. To see it, either do a /home/user ls -la or go to KFM File Manager and under View select to see the hidden files. All of this is as a preface to the following: You configure your preferences by using the command: /home/sher/wp80/wpbin/xwp -adm or /opt/wp80/wpbin/xwp -adm (if that's where your WP is) I spent an hour on the phone last week with a very kind and patient gentleman from Corel tech support who explained all this to me and we went step by step through every single screen and every single option in Preferences. My problem at the time was that I couldn't get a document backup, which is, of course, a critial matter. Well that's been solved. You must save your work space in Environment and indicate your document and backup directoris in Files as well as check the options for original backup and the timed backup (preferably 1 minute). I did all of this or rather we did it together on the phone, and everything seemed all right. But after getting off the phone, without making any changes, the next time I tried to enter Preferences with the -adm command, I found that just about everything had been greyed out. I couldn't believe it. So, I played with it. I have installed it nearly a dozen times, mostly as user, in the exact same way (by the way, Authorization said that "sher", that's me, was the authorized adm since I installed it as user and into my home directory. When I installed it as root, of course, Administration said that "root" was the adm. Well, to make a long story short, every time I install WP, I get the same result, namely, that, as it turns out, YOU ONLY GET ONE CHANCE TO SET THE PREFERENCES! After you get out and try to come back in and type the -adm command, WP's Preferences menu (except for Administration and one other section) clams shut. I am well aware that the fact that Administration is OPEN in Preferences is a key to opening up the rest of Preferences. And I have tried every trick I can think of: adding sher as user, as group, adding "users", adding root. I tried to log out of KDE and log back in as root and still the exact same thing happens. In fact, if "user" has installed it in user's directory, then root can't even open up Preferences at all (except Administration). Same in reverse (if root has installed it, user can't have access to Preferences). Nothing works. Please try it yourself and tell me if you have the same problem. If this is a bug, it is a severe and crippling bug. If it is not, if it is in fact a security feature, and if the Administration section is the key to making Preferences available to the user whenever he needs to, please, by all means, let me and others know PRECISELY how to do that. So, the big question of the day is: IF I COULD GET INTO PREFERENCES ONCE, WHY CAN I NOT GET INTO IT WHENEVER I FEEL LIKE AND CONFIGURE WP8 TO RUN AS I PLEASE WHENEVER I PLEASE AS ADMINISTRATOR (never mind whether I am technically "sher' or "root"? Why does WP8 Preferences clam shut after a single use? If Corel tech support is listening, please contact me about this. Thank you all for listening and thank you for your patience. Any suggestions? Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
