[newbie] Still no KdeprintFax
After following several suggestions to activate the fax feature of Open Office. It still doens't work. After the initial disk installation I installed all the updates associated with the 9.1 prior to trying to utalize the KdeprintFax. I don't know if this introduced problems or not. Now I'm wondering if I should reinstall 9.1? Would I have to start by reformating the HD partition? Any suggestions I just want to be able to fax from Open Office. I don't care if it is KdeprintFax, Efax or any other software as long as it works. I did follow Derek's suggestion below and it did get faxing to work from Kword but not Open Office. Derek Jennings wrote: If you are using KDE and CUPS then when you print a dialogue box appears. The drop down 'Name' selects the printer to use. Underneath your real printers there are four 'pseudo' printers :- Mail PDF File Print to File (PDF) Print to File (Postscript) Send to Fax (not Print to fax) If they are not there then it is easy enough to add them. Open KDE ControlCentrePeripheralsPrinters Select Administrator mode. Right click in the white area, select 'Add special (pseudo) printer' In the pop up configuration box give it a name and in the 'Command Settings' box enter kdeprintfax %in derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Still no KdeprintFax
On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 1:55 pm, owenb wrote: After following several suggestions to activate the fax feature of Open Office. It still doens't work. After the initial disk installation I installed all the updates associated with the 9.1 prior to trying to utalize the KdeprintFax. I don't know if this introduced problems or not. Now I'm wondering if I should reinstall 9.1? Would I have to start by reformating the HD partition? Any suggestions I just want to be able to fax from Open Office. I don't care if it is KdeprintFax, Efax or any other software as long as it works. I did follow Derek's suggestion below and it did get faxing to work from Kword but not Open Office. Derek Jennings wrote: If you are using KDE and CUPS then when you print a dialogue box appears. The drop down 'Name' selects the printer to use. Underneath your real printers there are four 'pseudo' printers :- Mail PDF File Print to File (PDF) Print to File (Postscript) Send to Fax (not Print to fax) If they are not there then it is easy enough to add them. Open KDE ControlCentrePeripheralsPrinters Select Administrator mode. Right click in the white area, select 'Add special (pseudo) printer' In the pop up configuration box give it a name and in the 'Command Settings' box enter kdeprintfax %in derek And did you follow my instructions here http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/fax_cups.html to add qtcups as a printer to OpenOffice? If you do that, then when you print with OpenOffice qtcups will appear as one of the printers available, and that leads you into exactly the same printer dialogue as Kword. Reinstalling or reformatting will not help. It is just a matter of defining qtcups as an OpenOffice printer. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Still no KdeprintFax
Thanks Derek, It seems to be working after I corrected my blunder. I printed qtcups--stdin instead of qtcups --stdin Owen Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 1:55 pm, owenb wrote: After following several suggestions to activate the fax feature of Open Office. It still doens't work. After the initial disk installation I installed all the updates associated with the 9.1 prior to trying to utalize the KdeprintFax. I don't know if this introduced problems or not. Now I'm wondering if I should reinstall 9.1? Would I have to start by reformating the HD partition? Any suggestions I just want to be able to fax from Open Office. I don't care if it is KdeprintFax, Efax or any other software as long as it works. I did follow Derek's suggestion below and it did get faxing to work from Kword but not Open Office. Derek Jennings wrote: If you are using KDE and CUPS then when you print a dialogue box appears. The drop down 'Name' selects the printer to use. Underneath your real printers there are four 'pseudo' printers :- Mail PDF File Print to File (PDF) Print to File (Postscript) Send to Fax (not Print to fax) If they are not there then it is easy enough to add them. Open KDE ControlCentrePeripheralsPrinters Select Administrator mode. Right click in the white area, select 'Add special (pseudo) printer' In the pop up configuration box give it a name and in the 'Command Settings' box enter kdeprintfax %in derek And did you follow my instructions here http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/fax_cups.html to add qtcups as a printer to OpenOffice? If you do that, then when you print with OpenOffice qtcups will appear as one of the printers available, and that leads you into exactly the same printer dialogue as Kword. Reinstalling or reformatting will not help. It is just a matter of defining qtcups as an OpenOffice printer. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
