Re: [newbie] printing emails and webpages - print jammed up and missing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 23 Feb 2005 15:02, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Since using linux I have noticed this problem printing emails and webpages. Soemtimes words are printed over each over, and lines at end of page on emails are lost. I've looked at setting because I feekl sure I've had this problem before and it was easy to fix, but not making progress. Thanks Rosemary I see you are using Thunderbird, so probably the same method is needed for both problems. When you print from a webpage (I'm assuming FF is the same as Moz) there is , by default a command string beginning, I think, with lpr. Delete that and put in xpp or kprinter (your choice, both work) which will give you access to your printer set up as you use it for other apps. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCHJ40kFAvMr/nNX8RAlSsAJ99W6A54Ph1LJzpK3Dv8zpBCOYkkQCfYxlk /1gQh6Q4raOYr6fVFWy1ePc= =NP5l -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from kmail
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 Jan 2005 23:28, Dennis Myers wrote: I did some updates for bugs and security and now I can not print from konqueror or kmail. The error message is: A print error occurred. Error message received from system: Error while reading filter description for true. Empty command line received. Has anyone an idea where this filter description is and what the empty command line should be? TIA This has been an annoyance for ages, but it's nothing more than an annoyance once you know what's happening. For some reason printing (I think it's kprinter that does it) can leave behind a filter that should be removed, IMO. Anyway, the cure is to open the property box beside the bar that shows your printer name - the one that shows all details about printer setup - and there should be a tab (rightmost on mine) for filters. Delete the filter there, and it will print again. Of course it will happen frequently - at least it does if I use kprinter, which is the default for kde apps. Setting Mozilla to print through xpp gives me access to the printers without leaving the filter behind. HTH Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB5QWZkFAvMr/nNX8RAuu6AKCXgNyoLFcQ49gn4ebYDcGtuqnTTQCghhyc b5K378PiQGt0fejavln0zXo= =Mp3n -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from kmail
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 05:10 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 11 Jan 2005 23:28, Dennis Myers wrote: I did some updates for bugs and security and now I can not print from konqueror or kmail. The error message is: A print error occurred. Error message received from system: Error while reading filter description for true. Empty command line received. Has anyone an idea where this filter description is and what the empty command line should be? TIA This has been an annoyance for ages, but it's nothing more than an annoyance once you know what's happening. For some reason printing (I think it's kprinter that does it) can leave behind a filter that should be removed, IMO. Anyway, the cure is to open the property box beside the bar that shows your printer name - the one that shows all details about printer setup - and there should be a tab (rightmost on mine) for filters. Delete the filter there, and it will print again. Of course it will happen frequently - at least it does if I use kprinter, which is the default for kde apps. Setting Mozilla to print through xpp gives me access to the printers without leaving the filter behind. HTH Anne Thanks for the reply Anne. I did not find any filters there. However, once I set up HPwebjet again (it also disappeared when I updated) the whole set up works again. So I conclude that there is another filter somewhere having to do with the Hpwebjet program. I am still looking. I will note your solution for future reference. Thanks again -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from kmail
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 Jan 2005 15:42, Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2005 05:10 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Thanks for the reply Anne. I did not find any filters there. However, once I set up HPwebjet again (it also disappeared when I updated) the whole set up works again. So I conclude that there is another filter somewhere having to do with the Hpwebjet program. I am still looking. I will note your solution for future reference. Thanks again Glad you got it sorted. Considering how often that filter =True comes up, I decided that I should try to take it to the kde lists. I'm certain it is kprinter that puts it there. If anything useful comes back I'll report here. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB5VM9kFAvMr/nNX8RAsqxAJ91aQy4ZpZeKu3V2g+2S1VWAUvvDACfSNSu eaZ+4E6fq/WpN38PHQ11nX4= =G8NP -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Printing
On Friday 27 August 2004 00:23, Steve wrote: I have two linux PCs connected to a wireless router. One of the PCs has a printer, the other does not. Is it difficult to get the one PC to send print jobs to the other PC? It would make printing homework alot easier Thank you, Steve It is real easy. Just go through the printer configuration Wizard in Mandrake Control CentreHardware on each machine starting with the machine with the attached printer. The wizard will install the CUPS print server which will make the printer available to any computer. If you have Windows computers on the net, then install Samba after setting up the printer, and then Samba will make the printer available to Windows users. The only problem you might have is if you have a firewall running on either machine. If the firewall is in place you will need to open port 631. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Printing
Thanks, I'll give it a try!!! Steve - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Printing On Friday 27 August 2004 00:23, Steve wrote: I have two linux PCs connected to a wireless router. One of the PCs has a printer, the other does not. Is it difficult to get the one PC to send print jobs to the other PC? It would make printing homework alot easier Thank you, Steve It is real easy. Just go through the printer configuration Wizard in Mandrake Control CentreHardware on each machine starting with the machine with the attached printer. The wizard will install the CUPS print server which will make the printer available to any computer. If you have Windows computers on the net, then install Samba after setting up the printer, and then Samba will make the printer available to Windows users. The only problem you might have is if you have a firewall running on either machine. If the firewall is in place you will need to open port 631. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] printing - man files info files.
Johan Sch wrote: Hi list, printing man files I do this .. man grub | col -b | lpr .. which is ok. but.. Please how can info files be printed, they seem to have more detail. You can send them directly to lpr too, but I use a2ps for printing out both man and info pages (and indeed most text documents). The basic command is: info grub | a2ps -t grub This will print it out in two virtual pages, with the title grub. There are a lot of options for both commands, so first look at info info and info a2ps The first can select which nodes you want to print, and the second will give you lots of printing options. Sir Robin -- I'm very into Britney Spears' early work, before she sold out, so mostly her, um, finger painting and macaroni art. Dawn - BtVS Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] printing - man files info files.
On Sunday 13 Jun 2004 10:35 pm, robin wrote: Johan Sch wrote: Hi list, printing man files I do this .. man grub | col -b | lpr .. which is ok. but.. Please how can info files be printed, they seem to have more detail. You can send them directly to lpr too, but I use a2ps for printing out both man and info pages (and indeed most text documents). The basic command is: info grub | a2ps -t grub This will print it out in two virtual pages, with the title grub. There are a lot of options for both commands, so first look at info info and info a2ps The first can select which nodes you want to print, and the second will give you lots of printing options. Sir Robin For man pages, the man command can do it without any help: man -t subject | lpr This has the advantage of retaining the bold and underline attributes, which the col -b command strips. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] printing - man files info files.
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 17:15:14 +0100 Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 13 Jun 2004 10:35 pm, robin wrote: Johan Sch wrote: Hi list, printing man files I do this .. man grub | col -b | lpr .. which is ok. but.. Please how can info files be printed, they seem to have more detail. You can send them directly to lpr too, but I use a2ps for printing out both man and info pages (and indeed most text documents). The basic command is: info grub | a2ps -t grub This will print it out in two virtual pages, with the title grub. There are a lot of options for both commands, so first look at info info and info a2ps The first can select which nodes you want to print, and the second will give you lots of printing options. Sir Robin For man pages, the man command can do it without any help: man -t subject | lpr This has the advantage of retaining the bold and underline attributes, which the col -b command strips. -- Richard Urwin Would like to thank the respondents for helping in this matter. Enjoy -- Johan Sch kernel 2.6.3-13mdk May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Printing to a D-link 3 port print server with CUPS ?
Ken Walker wrote: I'm trying to set CUPS to print to an Epson inkjet and a HP Laser that are connected to a D-Link 3 port ( 2 parallel and 1 serial ) print server. I know the server name is Print_Server I can see this in a windows NWNH ( after I installed NetBEUI ), but a smbclient to the workgroup Master shows up all the workgroup workstations but not the print server. I also know the 3 ports on the print server are called PS-D10D8B-P1 PS-D10D8B-P2 PS-D10D8B-S1 and a nmap to that print server gives PortState Service 21/tcp openftp 25/tcp opentelnet 515/tcp openprinter What do I choose for the connection type ? Printer on remote lpd server Network printer tcp/socket Printer on SMB/Windows server Enter a Printer device url Has anybody got one of these working with CUPS ? Many thanks Ken ( currently printerless :o) Ken; I've had some pretty good success with GNet print servers by doing the following; On your Linux system(s), add an entry to the /etc/hosts file that says; XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX Print_Server where the XXX notation gets replaced by the IP address of the D-Link print server. I also suggest that you replace the capital P S in the name of the Print_Server with lower-case letters. Linux seems to prefer that. You should try accessing the print server using LPD if it supports that protocol. Once you've modified your hosts file, try setting up the printer server using MCC's printer wizard. Use the same name that you entered into the hosts file ( Which should be identical to the name entered into the print-server itself. IIRC, D-Link has a web-based interface that you can use to manage the unit and change the name to all lower case. Once MCC finds the print server, it should also show you the connected printers. If that doesn't work, check the Windows Print sharing and NetBios setting of the print server. If it gives you an option for the workgroup name, change that to the workgroup that your network is currently using, and try MCC's Printer Wizard with a search for a Windows/Samba printer. Let us know how that goes. HTH Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Printing Problems HP 5L - Open Office Calc
Thanks: I Got it sorted out. I did not notice in the past that I actually had to click or double click on the HP 5L printer at the top in the printer manager window in order to access the jobs for that specific printer. I just took it for granted that since it is the only printer on my system, it would automatically show the jobs. My computer was set on the Generic Unix LPD Print System. I've now changed it to CUPS. Would it make a difference? Weiers On Monday 23 Feb 2004 22:25, Steve Kaufman wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 23 Feb 2004 20:52, Weiers Coetser wrote: Hi, I am as newbie as can be. I set up a sizeable spreadsheet with Open Office and neglected to toggle print selected sheet only option. Ended up printing 8 copies of the whole spreadsheet (11 sheets) = approximately 90 pages. I tried everything to try to stop the printjob. But it was not registered in the Print Manager. Swithched the computer off. Swithced the printer off. Rebooted into Win XP. The moment I returned to Linux the printer started printing. Questions: 1. How do I stop a printjob if I am not happy with it. 2. How do I set OpenOffice to only print the selected sheet by default, in stead of the whole document? Thanks. (I hope I did not hi-jack any threads. I did do a search of the archives, but did not find something that seems to answer this particular questions) There are lots of ways to manage print jobs. Assuming you are using KDE and CUPS :- In konqueror press the 'services' button in the tool bar dividing the pane. The left pane will then show 'Print System Browser' You can stop jobs in there. Derek, I don't understand this at all. I don't see a button dividing any pane. Help Well it depends on how your view options are set up in konq In this screenshot http://images.mandrakesoft.com/img/screenshots/90scr4.png notice the vertical row of icons in the divider between the left and right panes of konq? snip derek Steve -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing Problems HP 5L - Open Office Calc
On Monday 23 Feb 2004 20:52, Weiers Coetser wrote: Hi, I am as newbie as can be. I set up a sizeable spreadsheet with Open Office and neglected to toggle print selected sheet only option. Ended up printing 8 copies of the whole spreadsheet (11 sheets) = approximately 90 pages. I tried everything to try to stop the printjob. But it was not registered in the Print Manager. Swithched the computer off. Swithced the printer off. Rebooted into Win XP. The moment I returned to Linux the printer started printing. Questions: 1. How do I stop a printjob if I am not happy with it. 2. How do I set OpenOffice to only print the selected sheet by default, in stead of the whole document? Thanks. (I hope I did not hi-jack any threads. I did do a search of the archives, but did not find something that seems to answer this particular questions) There are lots of ways to manage print jobs. Assuming you are using KDE and CUPS :- In konqueror press the 'services' button in the tool bar dividing the pane. The left pane will then show 'Print System Browser' You can stop jobs in there. Or Right click on your 'Quick start' bar select Panel MenuAddSpecial ButtonPrint System Or in any browser http://localhost:631 derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing Problems HP 5L - Open Office Calc
Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 23 Feb 2004 20:52, Weiers Coetser wrote: Hi, I am as newbie as can be. I set up a sizeable spreadsheet with Open Office and neglected to toggle print selected sheet only option. Ended up printing 8 copies of the whole spreadsheet (11 sheets) = approximately 90 pages. I tried everything to try to stop the printjob. But it was not registered in the Print Manager. Swithched the computer off. Swithced the printer off. Rebooted into Win XP. The moment I returned to Linux the printer started printing. Questions: 1. How do I stop a printjob if I am not happy with it. 2. How do I set OpenOffice to only print the selected sheet by default, in stead of the whole document? Thanks. (I hope I did not hi-jack any threads. I did do a search of the archives, but did not find something that seems to answer this particular questions) There are lots of ways to manage print jobs. Assuming you are using KDE and CUPS :- In konqueror press the 'services' button in the tool bar dividing the pane. The left pane will then show 'Print System Browser' You can stop jobs in there. Derek, I don't understand this at all. I don't see a button dividing any pane. Help Or Right click on your 'Quick start' bar select Panel MenuAddSpecial ButtonPrint System Got this... Or in any browser http://localhost:631 This works too derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Weires. if you go to start applications/configuration/printing/CUPS www admin then you can 'Manage Jobs' or 'Manage Printers' from there. Dereks ways are quicker but I had a similiar problem yesterday and found this other way. Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing Problems HP 5L - Open Office Calc
On Monday 23 Feb 2004 22:25, Steve Kaufman wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 23 Feb 2004 20:52, Weiers Coetser wrote: Hi, I am as newbie as can be. I set up a sizeable spreadsheet with Open Office and neglected to toggle print selected sheet only option. Ended up printing 8 copies of the whole spreadsheet (11 sheets) = approximately 90 pages. I tried everything to try to stop the printjob. But it was not registered in the Print Manager. Swithched the computer off. Swithced the printer off. Rebooted into Win XP. The moment I returned to Linux the printer started printing. Questions: 1. How do I stop a printjob if I am not happy with it. 2. How do I set OpenOffice to only print the selected sheet by default, in stead of the whole document? Thanks. (I hope I did not hi-jack any threads. I did do a search of the archives, but did not find something that seems to answer this particular questions) There are lots of ways to manage print jobs. Assuming you are using KDE and CUPS :- In konqueror press the 'services' button in the tool bar dividing the pane. The left pane will then show 'Print System Browser' You can stop jobs in there. Derek, I don't understand this at all. I don't see a button dividing any pane. Help Well it depends on how your view options are set up in konq In this screenshot http://images.mandrakesoft.com/img/screenshots/90scr4.png notice the vertical row of icons in the divider between the left and right panes of konq? snip derek Steve -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing to print server not working - SOLVED
Thanks all who replied. The solution was to use cups and define the printer as an LPR:\\192.168.x.x\lp and use the use the HP laserjetIIIP generic driver. Then in case there are any other real newbies out there I also had a deskjet 720 installed on myparallel port which was the default. In order to make the laserjet the defaultI entered lp -d HP (HP = the name I gave the lasrejet). One more small problem solved. You people all rave about LINUX and put down the WINDOxx (I won't even say the name) BUT things sure are a whole lot easier in DOZE. Believe me I hate microsoft and the doze family but sure like the ease of use. There is a real high learning curve. But I'll stick with it as long as I have you people to help me. Steve Linux user number 344404 ---Original Message--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 02/05/04 09:07:24 To: newbie linux-mandrake Subject: [mandrake] Re: [newbie] Printing to print server not working On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 12:01, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 04 February 2004 10:21 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: I am trying to print to my d-link Router/printserver and can't see to get it to work. I am running MD9.2 and using a D-Ling DI-713P the P means that it is a router with a printer port. Under windows I just set up a port and put in the router base address and print to it. No problem. I tried the CUPS setup and it goes all the way through. I put in that it was an LPR printer and gave it the ip address but don't have a quename to give it. I tried MCC add a printer but it can't see the printer so it won't let me go farther. Also read a lot of man pages about lpr and print and other stuff like that. Tried those things to no avail. If anyone can give me a hint on what to do I would appreciate it. Have done the google think and don't seem to find anything. The d-link sit was not much help either although I did fine one thing where it said to put in the ipaddress and lp so I'm not that lp was the que name ot what. I have switched back to my doze system so I can't test that right now. Will tomorrow so I thought I would just drop this out to you helpfull people and see what other ideas people have. You were right, lp is the queue name.I had an old 704P and had it setup and printing with an HP Deskjet printer.Since then, I have changed printers and routers so I don't use it anymore.Concept is the same though, LPR printer, IP address of the router and lp for queue name should work, if it doesn't then I can try to help you troubleshoot it. BTW, based on my experience, using the router as a print server is only useful under windows.Under windows, the computer that the printer is connected to slows down when others are printing to it (Possibly higher resolutions supported under windows or postscript drivers rather than pcl drivers). Using a Linux machine for the print server, I never had that problem with a shared printer. I have a netgear print server attached to a router and this link tells how to set it up. http://www.aplawrence.com/Linux/netgearcups.html Worked like a dream first time - might help tho hardware differs. david
Re: [newbie] Printing to print server not working
On 2/4/2004 at 10:21 PM Steve Kaufman wrote: I am trying to print to my d-link Router/printserver and can't see to get it to work. I am running MD9.2 and using a D-Ling DI-713P the P means that it is a router with a printer port. Under windows I just set up a port and put in the router base address and print to it. No problem. I tried the CUPS setup and it goes all the way through. I put in that it was an LPR printer and gave it the ip address but don't have a quename to give it. I tried MCC add a printer but it can't see the printer so it won't let me go farther. Also read a lot of man pages about lpr and print and other stuff like that. Tried those things to no avail. If anyone can give me a hint on what to do I would appreciate it. Have done the google think and don't seem to find anything. The d-link sit was not much help either although I did fine one thing where it said to put in the ip address and lp so I'm not that lp was the que name ot what. I have switched back to my doze system so I can't test that right now. Will tomorrow so I thought I would just drop this out to you helpfull people and see what other ideas people have. By the way the printer I have attached to it is a HP Laserjet IIIP. TIA Steve Linux user number 344404 *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** Steve; I had a look at the unit on D-LINK's web-site and it doesn't seem to support any protocols other than Windows printing, that means SMB is your friend. The problem is that while it is accepting SMB connections, the print server is NOT broadcasting it's existance. Your best bet with this unit is to try the following; 1) Using the Windows software for the router, or the web-based interface, log into the router and configure it for your network. By the sounds of things that's already been done since you're using the router in Windows for printing. 2) Once you're logged into the router, go to each panel or page of the Interface where there is a space to enter a host name for the unit, and put in the following name exactly as I have it here in brackets - ( dlink_printer ) - don't include the brackets. 3) Make sure that the router has a static IP address - ie; 192.168.0.1 and a subnet that matches your network setup - ie; 255.255.255.0 4) Boot your PC into Mandrake, and change to the root user. 5) In the /etc folder, find the file called hosts, and add the following line to the file - 192.168.0.1 dlink_printer , making sure that you leave a space between the IP address and the name of the router. Save and close the file. 6) In Mandrake Control Center, go to the Hardware section, then go to printers. Try setting up the printer using Windows SMB and it should give you a line to put in information about the location of the printer like this - smb:// - Note that you may only see this type of entry if you are in expert or advanced mode. When you get this option, enter the name dlink_printer without the quotes, and make sure that it's exactly the way you typed it in the /etc/hosts file. 7) At the next section, you should be asked about the printer drivers for your printer so select the drivers for your HP printer. 8) Do a test page. 9) If it doesn't work, it's because Mandrake still can't see the router/printer-server, and chances are that it never will. There's no guarantee that it will work, but it's something you might try though. I had the exact same problem with another brand of All in One router, but I checked it out before buying to make sure it supported LPD or CUPS. Once I found out what was needed, it took 3 minutes to set up on each of 5 Mandrake Systems. Good luck. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing to print server not working
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 10:21 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: I am trying to print to my d-link Router/printserver and can't see to get it to work. I am running MD9.2 and using a D-Ling DI-713P the P means that it is a router with a printer port. Under windows I just set up a port and put in the router base address and print to it. No problem. I tried the CUPS setup and it goes all the way through. I put in that it was an LPR printer and gave it the ip address but don't have a quename to give it. I tried MCC add a printer but it can't see the printer so it won't let me go farther. Also read a lot of man pages about lpr and print and other stuff like that. Tried those things to no avail. If anyone can give me a hint on what to do I would appreciate it. Have done the google think and don't seem to find anything. The d-link sit was not much help either although I did fine one thing where it said to put in the ip address and lp so I'm not that lp was the que name ot what. I have switched back to my doze system so I can't test that right now. Will tomorrow so I thought I would just drop this out to you helpfull people and see what other ideas people have. You were right, lp is the queue name. I had an old 704P and had it setup and printing with an HP Deskjet printer. Since then, I have changed printers and routers so I don't use it anymore. Concept is the same though, LPR printer, IP address of the router and lp for queue name should work, if it doesn't then I can try to help you troubleshoot it. BTW, based on my experience, using the router as a print server is only useful under windows. Under windows, the computer that the printer is connected to slows down when others are printing to it (Possibly higher resolutions supported under windows or postscript drivers rather than pcl drivers). Using a Linux machine for the print server, I never had that problem with a shared printer. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing to print server not working
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 12:01, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 04 February 2004 10:21 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: I am trying to print to my d-link Router/printserver and can't see to get it to work. I am running MD9.2 and using a D-Ling DI-713P the P means that it is a router with a printer port. Under windows I just set up a port and put in the router base address and print to it. No problem. I tried the CUPS setup and it goes all the way through. I put in that it was an LPR printer and gave it the ip address but don't have a quename to give it. I tried MCC add a printer but it can't see the printer so it won't let me go farther. Also read a lot of man pages about lpr and print and other stuff like that. Tried those things to no avail. If anyone can give me a hint on what to do I would appreciate it. Have done the google think and don't seem to find anything. The d-link sit was not much help either although I did fine one thing where it said to put in the ip address and lp so I'm not that lp was the que name ot what. I have switched back to my doze system so I can't test that right now. Will tomorrow so I thought I would just drop this out to you helpfull people and see what other ideas people have. You were right, lp is the queue name. I had an old 704P and had it setup and printing with an HP Deskjet printer. Since then, I have changed printers and routers so I don't use it anymore. Concept is the same though, LPR printer, IP address of the router and lp for queue name should work, if it doesn't then I can try to help you troubleshoot it. BTW, based on my experience, using the router as a print server is only useful under windows. Under windows, the computer that the printer is connected to slows down when others are printing to it (Possibly higher resolutions supported under windows or postscript drivers rather than pcl drivers). Using a Linux machine for the print server, I never had that problem with a shared printer. I have a netgear print server attached to a router and this link tells how to set it up. http://www.aplawrence.com/Linux/netgearcups.html Worked like a dream first time - might help tho hardware differs. david Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printing to pdf w/o using kprinter
On Tuesday 14 Oct 2003 4:24 pm, Eric Huff wrote: Anyone know how to print to pdf (from all programs, well specifically mozilla) w/o using kprinter? kprinter (which is also where qtcups links to) is s slow to start up... I know i can print to ps, then ps2pdf. Hmmm i wonder if i could get a bash script to do it... thanks, eric Of course. That is all kprinter does. Open KDE ControlCentrePeripheralsPrinters Right click on the pdf pseudo printerselect configure click on the spanner icon next to PostScript to pdf converter click on Edit command and you will see it just calls up the command gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=%filteroutput -sPAPERSIZE=%psl %filterargs -c .setpdfwrite -f %filterinput derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printing to pdf w/o using kprinter
I know i can print to ps, then ps2pdf. Hmmm i wonder if i could get a bash script to do it... Of course. That is all kprinter does. Open KDE ControlCentrePeripheralsPrinters Right click on the pdf pseudo printerselect configure click on the spanner icon next to PostScript to pdf converter click on Edit command and you will see it just calls up the command gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=%filteroutput -sPAPERSIZE=%psl %filterargs -c .setpdfwrite -f %filterinput That rocks! I should poke around kcontrol some more and see what else is in there... Thanks Derek, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from Gimp 1.3
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 09:46, Terry Sheltra wrote: I'm about to ask a potentially dumb question, so please bear with me .. :-) I've been using Gimp 1.3 for quite some time now, and totally love it. The only thing I'm not able to do is print from it. There are no options in the menus to print. How can I fix this? Or is it just something that hasn't been instituted yet because it's still unstable? Thanks! -- Terry Sheltra PC Support Technician/Asst. Network Administrator University of Virginia School of Architecture 434.982.3047 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you try right clicking on your imagefileprint ? true its not intuitive most everything is done with right clicks -- Available via instant messenger -- Composed on a 100% Microsoft-free PC Registered Linux User #218330 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from Gimp 1.3
Yes, that I did. I've come to notice that there are many more options available in GIMP when you right-click an image, rather than using the menus in the main dock. Thanks for the help though! Terry Aron Smith wrote: Did you try right clicking on your imagefileprint ? true its not intuitive most everything is done with right clicks -- Terry Sheltra PC Support Technician/Asst. Network Administrator University of Virginia School of Architecture 434.982.3047 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Available via instant messenger -- Composed on a 100% Microsoft-free PC Registered Linux User #218330 -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from Gimp 1.3
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 19:04, Terry Sheltra wrote: Yes, that I did. I've come to notice that there are many more options available in GIMP when you right-click an image, rather than using the menus in the main dock. Thanks for the help though! Terry Aron Smith wrote: Did you try right clicking on your imagefileprint ? true its not intuitive most everything is done with right clicks -- Terry Sheltra PC Support Technician/Asst. Network Administrator University of Virginia School of Architecture 434.982.3047 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Available via instant messenger -- Composed on a 100% Microsoft-free PC Registered Linux User #218330 When going to the printer with CTRL+P access printer setup and change the command there to whatever your systems uses. I peronally replaced it with a simple qtcups (I use cups:o)) because I like getting the Qt interface to printing i.e. I can still change settings or printers. If you don' want that simply enter cups or if you're using LPR lpr Good luck, HarM -- Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from Gimp 1.3
Terry Sheltra wrote: I'm about to ask a potentially dumb question, so please bear with me .. :-) I've been using Gimp 1.3 for quite some time now, and totally love it. The only thing I'm not able to do is print from it. There are no options in the menus to print. How can I fix this? Or is it just something that hasn't been instituted yet because it's still unstable? Thanks! Put the image file up in a window in gimp move cursor over the picture , rightmouse click, down to print. Up comes the print manipulation window. Many things you can do there to do with sizing, position, etc etc . Set your printer up in there too. resolution,feed, paper. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from Gimp 1.3
I right-click on the image, but there is no print option anywhere to be found. The option to print is there in GIMP 1.2.5, so I'm wondering if maybe the GIMP folks haven't set it up yet in 1.3. Terry John Richard Smith wrote: Put the image file up in a window in gimp move cursor over the picture , rightmouse click, down to print. Up comes the print manipulation window. Many things you can do there to do with sizing, position, etc etc . Set your printer up in there too. resolution,feed, paper. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from Gimp 1.3
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 20:58, Terry Sheltra wrote: I right-click on the image, but there is no print option anywhere to be found. The option to print is there in GIMP 1.2.5, so I'm wondering if maybe the GIMP folks haven't set it up yet in 1.3. It's there: Right-click then file and scroll down to print What version did you install i.e. was it a Mandrake rpm? The foreign (or source .tgz) ones might indeed be missing some aspects. Good luck, HarM -- Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from Gimp 1.3
I installed the rpm from one of the contrib sources (1.3.12-1mdk). Right-clicking the image gives me the following choices in the file menu: New Open Open Recent Save Save As Save a Copy Revert Mail Image Close Quit Strange ... Terry H.J.Bathoorn wrote: It's there: Right-click then file and scroll down to print What version did you install i.e. was it a Mandrake rpm? The foreign (or source .tgz) ones might indeed be missing some aspects. Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from Gimp 1.3
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 21:53, Terry Sheltra wrote: I installed the rpm from one of the contrib sources (1.3.12-1mdk). The only difference I can see is that I've got 1.3.18 so maybe it's a bug that's been fixed (it is a develop version after all) in later versions. Strange indeed. Try upgrading, I got mine from the Dutch cooker mirror I think. Good luck, HarM -- Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from Gimp 1.3
Thanks for the help HarM. I managed to find and install 1.3.20, and sure enough, the print option is there. Yay! Terry H.J.Bathoorn wrote: The only difference I can see is that I've got 1.3.18 so maybe it's a bug that's been fixed (it is a develop version after all) in later versions. Strange indeed. Try upgrading, I got mine from the Dutch cooker mirror I think. Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from Gimp 1.3
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 23:01, Terry Sheltra wrote: Thanks for the help HarM. I managed to find and install 1.3.20, and sure enough, the print option is there. Yay! Terry Have fun!:o) Good luck, HarM -- Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from Gimp 1.3
Looks like it must be, I'm with 1.2.5 myself. John Terry Sheltra wrote: I right-click on the image, but there is no print option anywhere to be found. The option to print is there in GIMP 1.2.5, so I'm wondering if maybe the GIMP folks haven't set it up yet in 1.3. Terry John Richard Smith wrote: Put the image file up in a window in gimp move cursor over the picture , rightmouse click, down to print. Up comes the print manipulation window. Many things you can do there to do with sizing, position, etc etc . Set your printer up in there too. resolution,feed, paper. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing - TurboPrint or New Printer
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 03:59, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 2:41 am, Russ wrote: Hi All, I have a Canon S750 which doesn't work well at all under CUPS. I am debating whether I should buy an inexpensive printer that is support under CUPS (and hooking my Canon up to one of my other 3 Win Boxes). Anyone have any suggestions for a decent replacement printer? It needs to be relatively inexpensive since TurboPrint is only $25. what does an ink cartridge cost for it? Thanks Russ Look at www.linuxprinting.org They recommend HP or Epson in most cases. Not least because they are good partners to the linux community. derek -- ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing - TurboPrint or New Printer
ed tharp wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 03:59, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 2:41 am, Russ wrote: Hi All, I have a Canon S750 which doesn't work well at all under CUPS. I am debating whether I should buy an inexpensive printer that is support under CUPS (and hooking my Canon up to one of my other 3 Win Boxes). Anyone have any suggestions for a decent replacement printer? It needs to be relatively inexpensive since TurboPrint is only $25. what does an ink cartridge cost for it? I can't remember what I paid for them but I have 2 of each of the colors and 4 of the black bought ahead. The printer prints at photo quality. I will use it on one of these computers. I'm just debateing if I should use it on this one though. Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing - TurboPrint or New Printer
Thanks for this link. I did some checking and I think I may end up just buying an Epson Stylus for this comp and using my Canon on one of the others. One of the reasons I got the Canon is because of the individual ink tanks. Epson has that too. Thanks Russ Look at www.linuxprinting.org They recommend HP or Epson in most cases. Not least because they are good partners to the linux community. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing....
On Thursday 04 Sep 2003 1:56 am, Budhi Astiyadi wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 22:22, Derek Jennings wrote: At the bottom right of your screen in the 'system tray' click on the vertical line. A menu will appear select Panel MenuAddSpecial ButtonPrint System You will then have an icon in the System Tray to manage your printers and can pause/cancel jobs. By the way : If you have a Canon BJC2100SP you will get greatly improved printing if you use Turbo Print. RPM available from Mandrake Club or here http://www.turboprint.de/english.html HTH derek Thank. I have done that and there is nothing in te JOB. I suppose to have my current printing there like in MSWindows, but nothing. Can You give me another possibilities? You have to select the printer you want to view first from the list at the top of the window. Then the 'Job' tab will show active jobs, and by pressing the icon that looks like a scroll of paper you can toggle to view completed jobs. (2nd icon from the right) I assume you are using the 'CUPS' printing system? Check it says CUPS in the drop down selection at the bottom of the Print manager window. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing....
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 17:22, Derek Jennings wrote: By the way : If you have a Canon BJC2100SP you will get greatly improved printing if you use Turbo Print. RPM available from Mandrake Club or here http://www.turboprint.de/english.html I've got one of those..what's greatly improved? With cups it's awfully slow in printing and if I print fom OpenOfficeOrg directly the qualitys is very shoddy. I configured another instance of the same printer as a bjc600 which gives an enormous speed gain on b/w printing BTW, almost 10 fold. -- Good luck, HarM Mandrake HowTo's More:-) http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing....
On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 4:54 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 03 September 2003 17:22, Derek Jennings wrote: By the way : If you have a Canon BJC2100SP you will get greatly improved printing if you use Turbo Print. RPM available from Mandrake Club or here http://www.turboprint.de/english.html I've got one of those..what's greatly improved? With cups it's awfully slow in printing and if I print fom OpenOfficeOrg directly the qualitys is very shoddy. I configured another instance of the same printer as a bjc600 which gives an enormous speed gain on b/w printing BTW, almost 10 fold. Well try out TurboPrint then. Personally I do not have a Canon printer. I am just repeating the comments of other list members who do. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing....
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 22:22, Derek Jennings wrote: At the bottom right of your screen in the 'system tray' click on the vertical line. A menu will appear select Panel MenuAddSpecial ButtonPrint System You will then have an icon in the System Tray to manage your printers and can pause/cancel jobs. By the way : If you have a Canon BJC2100SP you will get greatly improved printing if you use Turbo Print. RPM available from Mandrake Club or here http://www.turboprint.de/english.html HTH derek Thank. I have done that and there is nothing in te JOB. I suppose to have my current printing there like in MSWindows, but nothing. Can You give me another possibilities? -- Makacih, Budhi mbUdh Astiyadi Pesanggrahan deket REL Bintaro mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing Problems with KDE Programs
Somebody scribbled about [newbie] Printing Problems with KDE Programs Hi Guys, Had a weird problem develop over the weekend. I am completely unable to print from a number of programs - the one thing they seem to have in common is that they are all KDE progs: Kover, KWrite KGhostview and I just noticed this with Mandrake cooker 9.2 beta 2 and I am not sure yet if it's KDE specifically. This much I do know - kde programs that handle pdf won't handle pdf anymore. Forthermore printing (via acroread, which uses kprinter) puts the print job in kprint job viewer but that launches a perl that eventually (read real soon now) eats up all available ram and swap. I'm updating via urpmi at the moment - maybe that will fix it. This is the first time I have noticed this issue... -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing Problems with KDE Programs
I'm using Mandrake 9.1 and had printer/Kghostview problems (mostly crashing when i tried to print) I tracked down some KDE bug reports on the subject, (i wish i wrote them down) and i traced my problem to a problem with using CUPS and kghostview while a kppp connection was established. weird huh? anyway i changed my print system to the generic unix LPD print system and haven't had a problem since then. Just my $.02. Alex On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 06:23:01 -0700, dfox wrote: Somebody scribbled about [newbie] Printing Problems with KDE Programs Hi Guys, Had a weird problem develop over the weekend. I am completely unable to print from a number of programs - the one thing they seem to have in common is that they are all KDE progs: Kover, KWrite KGhostview and I just noticed this with Mandrake cooker 9.2 beta 2 and I am not sure yet if it's KDE specifically. This much I do know - kde programs that handle pdf won't handle pdf anymore. Forthermore printing (via acroread, which uses kprinter) puts the print job in kprint job viewer but that launches a perl that eventually (read real soon now) eats up all available ram and swap. I'm updating via urpmi at the moment - maybe that will fix it. This is the first time I have noticed this issue... -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- - Get your free @Elvis e-mail account at Elvis.com! http://www.elvis.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printing problem
On Saturday 26 Jul 2003 11:21 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 26 July 2003 05:06 pm, owenb wrote: This is a recent development. When I try to print I get the following message. Catastrophe! - KNotify A print error occurred. Error message received from system. Error while reading filter description for *true. *Empty command line received. Print KGhost View gives the following: Printer HPDeskjet 855c. Comment: HP Deskjet 855C, Foomatic + hpijs (recommended) Print system currently used CUPS (common UNIX Print System) connected to local host 631 No matter what printer I designate or what print system is designated I get the same error message. Until a few days ago the designated printer would print. I must of done something, The question is now how to undo it. Owen A quick solution may be to just install the printer as a new printer. I don't think it needs this Derek. If I understand his problem correctly it is very simple to deal with. When printing from some apps (Gimp seems to be the problem on mine), a filter gets left behind. All you have to do when you see this error is to call up print again, check the properties and you will see the filter. Delete it and print away Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printing problem
On Saturday 26 July 2003 05:06 pm, owenb wrote: This is a recent development. When I try to print I get the following message. Catastrophe! - KNotify A print error occurred. Error message received from system. Error while reading filter description for *true. *Empty command line received. Print KGhost View gives the following: Printer HPDeskjet 855c. Comment: HP Deskjet 855C, Foomatic + hpijs (recommended) Print system currently used CUPS (common UNIX Print System) connected to local host 631 No matter what printer I designate or what print system is designated I get the same error message. Until a few days ago the designated printer would print. I must of done something, The question is now how to undo it. Owen A quick solution may be to just install the printer as a new printer. Use mcc and add a printer with the same attributes but call it newprinter or such. Then make it default and see if printing works again. Did you d/l a cups update or some other printer util lately? HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing man pages
the space doesn't have anything to do with the problem. verify if you can view the contents of the file: cat col_manpage.ps less col_manpage.ps You should be able to view it. Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 11:37, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Tuesday 01 Jul 2003 5:35 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: | col -b lilo_manpage.ps for [EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]$ man col| col -b col_manpage.ps [EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]$ ls -l col_manpage.ps -rw-r--r--1 lvgandhi lvgandhi 2568 Jul 2 07:05 col_manpage.ps but kghostview couldn't open it. Maybe it's because you need a space in between col and the | ? So: man col | col -b col_manpage.ps ?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- --BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-- V3.12 GE/CS/ITGAT d- s: a--? C+()$ UL+++(---$) P+ L+++---$ E W++ N+++(--) o+++ !K w--- !O M-- V-- PS+++ !PE Y-- PGP- t--- 5-- X R(+++) tv-(--)(+) b-(+) DI+++ D+(++)() G--@$ e+++ h*++ r(-)(+) z? --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing man pages
On Wednesday 02 Jul 2003 2:37 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Tuesday 01 Jul 2003 5:35 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: | col -b lilo_manpage.ps for [EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]$ man col| col -b col_manpage.ps [EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]$ ls -l col_manpage.ps -rw-r--r--1 lvgandhi lvgandhi 2568 Jul 2 07:05 col_manpage.ps but kghostview couldn't open it. col outputs text, not postscript. % cat col_manpage.ps will display the file. See my previous post for getting man to output postscript directly, without using col. (Sorry I'm late for work.) -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing man pages
On Tuesday 01 Jul 2003 5:35 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: | col -b lilo_manpage.ps for [EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]$ man col| col -b col_manpage.ps [EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]$ ls -l col_manpage.ps -rw-r--r--1 lvgandhi lvgandhi 2568 Jul 2 07:05 col_manpage.ps but kghostview couldn't open it. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing man pages
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 11:37, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Tuesday 01 Jul 2003 5:35 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: | col -b lilo_manpage.ps for [EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]$ man col| col -b col_manpage.ps [EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]$ ls -l col_manpage.ps -rw-r--r--1 lvgandhi lvgandhi 2568 Jul 2 07:05 col_manpage.ps but kghostview couldn't open it. Maybe it's because you need a space in between col and the | ? So: man col | col -b col_manpage.ps ?? -- Fri Jul 4 11:00:01 EST 2003 11:00:01 up 2 days, 20 min, 2 users, load average: 0.44, 0.28, 0.21 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GIT d-- s:- a+ C UL P+ L+++ E W++ N++ o-- K--- w--- O++ M+ V PS+++ PE Y++ PGP- t+++ 5+++ X+++ R+ tv b+++ DI+++ D++ G++ e+ h r+++ y+++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- I wouldn't marry her with a ten foot pole. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing man pages
Thanks Guys, This is new ground to me - I will be trying your suggestions Johan ** - Original Message - From: Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 12:34 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Printing man pages On Tuesday 01 Jul 2003 10:38 am, Robin Turner wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 06:43, Johan Scheepers wrote: Hi, At the moment I use this command to print man pages... man lilo | col -b | lpr This is fine if it is only one or two pages. I do not seem to be able to redirect it to ordinary file Why - then I may be able to use a editor and be able to print first odd -reverse -then even - this will then use both sides of paper - save a lot off paper and also make my paper files smaller. Thanks Johan Do it like this: man lilo | col -b lilo_manpage.ps Then, you can open a nice postscript viewer/editor and make it all pretty and then print it at leisure! (or save it to view as you desire, or change it into an HTML file for indexing on your system) or try piping it through a2ps, which will format it nicely for you (check out man a2ps - there are tons of formatting options). Erm.. man has an option to output postscript. man -t lilo lilo_manpage.ps ghostview lilo_manpage.ps (man -t complains about a couple of fonts, but it works OK.) That gives you all the nice bold/italic highlighting etc. that you lose with col. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing man pages
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 06:43, Johan Scheepers wrote: Hi, At the moment I use this command to print man pages... man lilo | col -b | lpr This is fine if it is only one or two pages. I do not seem to be able to redirect it to ordinary file Why - then I may be able to use a editor and be able to print first odd -reverse -then even - this will then use both sides of paper - save a lot off paper and also make my paper files smaller. Thanks Johan Do it like this: man lilo | col -b lilo_manpage.ps Then, you can open a nice postscript viewer/editor and make it all pretty and then print it at leisure! (or save it to view as you desire, or change it into an HTML file for indexing on your system) -- Tue Jul 1 10:00:00 EST 2003 10:00:00 up 6 days, 9:46, 3 users, load average: 1.78, 1.89, 1.87 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Hey! Unless this is a nude love-in, get the hell off my property! You can't *own* property, man! I can! That's because I'm not a penniless hippie! --Farnsworth hippie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printing to a Zebra LP 2844 thermal label printer
On Wednesday 25 Jun 2003 7:23 pm, Grant wrote: I've searched the Internet for a Linux driver for my printer and can't seem to come up with one. Is there any chance of getting this thing to print in Linux without one? I just tried to add it manually but Zebra is not one of the make choices (Eltron would work too, but it's not there either). Am I SOL? - Grant If you have a manual, check whether it offers any emulation. You may be able to run a vanilla driver for it. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printing to a Zebra LP 2844 thermal label printer
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 04:23, Grant wrote: I've searched the Internet for a Linux driver for my printer and can't seem to come up with one. Is there any chance of getting this thing to print in Linux without one? I just tried to add it manually but Zebra is not one of the make choices (Eltron would work too, but it's not there either). Am I SOL? - Grant When I worked for Samsung Telecom America, we had Zebra's in the warehouse - what a programmer ended up doing was to create a script that would generate postscript and then be sent directly to the printer. A distributor somewhere in Dallas tried to help out with the issue, but it basically boiled down to doing it by hand - but in the end, it worked flawlessly (and so much better than the original WinNT server that was in place and had to be mucked with at least three/four times a day). Have you tried contacting the manufacturer for any tips/hints/clues as to how to get this printer working? -- Thu Jun 26 08:30:00 EST 2003 08:30:00 up 1 day, 8:16, 2 users, load average: 0.41, 0.55, 0.44 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject. -- Charles-Maurice De Talleyrand Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing (Actually NO-Printing) in 9.1
Just wondering, did you check the md5sums of the ISO's and bootable CD's? Your problems sound like a bad burn to me... rob wrote: Greetings, I am interested in whether anyone else has had printing problems in 9.1. I cannot get anything to print, even though I get no error messages. I cannot configure CUPS -- Connection refused. In Webmin, I'm told there is no printer installed on this system. Yet, G-print clearly shows my HP Deskjet 970Cse as the default printer. I've changed the permissions on all the printer related files I can find, especially relative to CUPS... I've reinstalled to the extent that I've tried to get my printer installed and configured. No change. Not sure where to go from here unless the only option is to re-install 9.0, if that's possible. In a related matter, my significant other, whose computer is right behind me installed 9.1 (upgrading from 8.2) seems to have had a smooth install but when she rebooted, the last thing that appears on her screen before it hangs is GRUB. She also attempted to reinstall in order to get the boot loader properly installed. She also attempted to make a boot floppy during this process but that hung. I'm wondering if there is something unique to our machines that would give both of us these major problems or whether there are some major problems that others may be experiencing with 9.1 that we haven't seen reported. (I have a Dell 1 GHz - Pentium and she has an AMD, Athlon 700 MHz. Any suggestions would sincerely be appreciated. I'd hate to have to repartition. It boggles my mind as to why printing seems to be such rocket science in Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing (Actually NO-Printing) in 9.1
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 13:40, rob wrote: Greetings, I am interested in whether anyone else has had printing problems in 9.1. I cannot get anything to print, even though I get no error messages. I cannot configure CUPS -- Connection refused. In Webmin, I'm told there is no printer installed on this system. Yet, G-print clearly shows my HP Deskjet 970Cse as the default printer. I've changed the permissions on all the printer related files I can find, especially relative to CUPS... I would suggest using Webmin to setup/configure the printer - that SHOULD work quite well - and once that's done, reboot and double check to see that the connectivity is still there and that you're still printing. (If all else fails, use Webmin! - it's a great tool) Can't figure the rest of y'alls issues/problems, but hey, the couple that crashes together, #/bin/bash's together! (bad joke) -- Mon Mar 31 13:50:00 EST 2003 13:50:00 up 10 days, 1:37, 4 users, load average: 0.18, 0.12, 0.12 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Lawful Dungeon Master -- and they're MY laws! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing (Actually NO-Printing) in 9.1
Yes, Checked all three ISOs with MD5sums...all were fine. I figger if we had a problem there we'd have had a bigger problem than just printing. rob On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 22:57, Jason Greenwood wrote: Just wondering, did you check the md5sums of the ISO's and bootable CD's? Your problems sound like a bad burn to me... rob wrote: Greetings, I am interested in whether anyone else has had printing problems in 9.1. I cannot get anything to print, even though I get no error messages. I cannot configure CUPS -- Connection refused. In Webmin, I'm told there is no printer installed on this system. Yet, G-print clearly shows my HP Deskjet 970Cse as the default printer. I've changed the permissions on all the printer related files I can find, especially relative to CUPS... I've reinstalled to the extent that I've tried to get my printer installed and configured. No change. Not sure where to go from here unless the only option is to re-install 9.0, if that's possible. In a related matter, my significant other, whose computer is right behind me installed 9.1 (upgrading from 8.2) seems to have had a smooth install but when she rebooted, the last thing that appears on her screen before it hangs is GRUB. She also attempted to reinstall in order to get the boot loader properly installed. She also attempted to make a boot floppy during this process but that hung. I'm wondering if there is something unique to our machines that would give both of us these major problems or whether there are some major problems that others may be experiencing with 9.1 that we haven't seen reported. (I have a Dell 1 GHz - Pentium and she has an AMD, Athlon 700 MHz. Any suggestions would sincerely be appreciated. I'd hate to have to repartition. It boggles my mind as to why printing seems to be such rocket science in Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing (Actually NO-Printing) in 9.1
Stephen, Thanks for your input. Unfortunately, I was messing with Webmin for most of the day, under the assumption that I'd be able to fix things that way. No go. I can't remember exactly what errors I was getting with it but it certainly didn't fix things...I'll try it again tomorrow since I'm so brain dead from this and it's time for bed, I'll not be able to post any usable error data or misconfiguration reports that result. More later... rob On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 22:55, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 13:40, rob wrote: Greetings, I am interested in whether anyone else has had printing problems in 9.1. I cannot get anything to print, even though I get no error messages. I cannot configure CUPS -- Connection refused. In Webmin, I'm told there is no printer installed on this system. Yet, G-print clearly shows my HP Deskjet 970Cse as the default printer. I've changed the permissions on all the printer related files I can find, especially relative to CUPS... I would suggest using Webmin to setup/configure the printer - that SHOULD work quite well - and once that's done, reboot and double check to see that the connectivity is still there and that you're still printing. (If all else fails, use Webmin! - it's a great tool) Can't figure the rest of y'alls issues/problems, but hey, the couple that crashes together, #/bin/bash's together! (bad joke) -- rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printing trouble after upgrading to Cooker
On Sunday 16 March 2003 10:32 am, David E. Fox wrote: OK, ran a urpmi --auto-select last night and updated lots of things. I needed to print something out of kword and although everything looks correct, nothing comes out of the printer. Cups is updated, I ran printerdrake, it's sending the test pages to the printer and then it just disappears into thin air. The parport modules are loaded and everything else seems fine - I don't think it's a kernel issue - although I have kernel-source for 2.4.21, the kernel rpm is still at 2.4.19. You might check the permissions. I had mozilla quit working after a update and the /usr/bin/mozilla permissions had gone back to root. So I changed them to user and it works again. Cups may have the same problem although which package is called on print I am not sure. Maybe userdrake and add printer? HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printing trouble after upgrading to Cooker
On Sunday 16 Mar 2003 4:32 pm, David E. Fox wrote: OK, ran a urpmi --auto-select last night and updated lots of things. I needed to print something out of kword and although everything looks correct, nothing comes out of the printer. Cups is updated, I ran printerdrake, it's sending the test pages to the printer and then it just disappears into thin air. The parport modules are loaded and everything else seems fine - I don't think it's a kernel issue - although I have kernel-source for 2.4.21, the kernel rpm is still at 2.4.19. What sort of printer do you have? The last update of printer-utils broke operation with HP Deskjet 720 series. The fix is to edit /etc/pnm2ppa.conf and set the version parameter for your printer type. Mandrake 9.1 has been fixed so it should be OK. HTh derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printing trouble after upgrading to Cooker
What sort of printer do you have? The last update of printer-utils broke operation with HP Deskjet 720 series. Mine's a Canon BJC 250. The fix is to edit /etc/pnm2ppa.conf and set the version parameter for your printer type. No go on that - is that only for the dexkjet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printing trouble after upgrading to Cooker
You might check the permissions. I had mozilla quit working after a It doesn't seem to be a permissions issue as I've attempted to print the test pages manually as root using lpr. Same issue - the print job mysteriously disappears - gs is not started, and the lpq just tells me printer is idle. If I turn the printer off, lpc says the printer is ready. That's odd. I'm going to try removing the printer and then adding it back and see if that fixes things. Well, what do you know, that works :). Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printing trouble after upgrading to Cooker
On Sunday 16 Mar 2003 7:57 pm, David E. Fox wrote: What sort of printer do you have? The last update of printer-utils broke operation with HP Deskjet 720 series. Mine's a Canon BJC 250. The fix is to edit /etc/pnm2ppa.conf and set the version parameter for your printer type. No go on that - is that only for the dexkjet? Yes -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printing trouble after upgrading to Cooker
On Sunday 16 March 2003 09:07 pm, David E. Fox wrote: You might check the permissions. I had mozilla quit working after a It doesn't seem to be a permissions issue as I've attempted to print the test pages manually as root using lpr. Same issue - the print job mysteriously disappears - gs is not started, and the lpq just tells me printer is idle. If I turn the printer off, lpc says the printer is ready. That's odd. I'm going to try removing the printer and then adding it back and see if that fixes things. Well, what do you know, that works :). Dennis M. linux user #180842 This rings a bell for me : recently I got a new HP 3820 as a very cheap replacement for my HP 930c (which my kids stole) and had a frustrating experience to get the damned thing working under 9.0. Finally, before giving up and returning the bastard, I used webmin. Voila - succes ! Try webmin. Kaj Haulrich. -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.0 - kernel 2.4.19.24 Brought to you from my 100 % Micro$oft-free computer. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printing and kdmrc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 February 2003 04:48 pm, sean jacobs wrote: I have been having a couple of problems with kdm and printing i was hoping someone could help me out with. first off..whenever i reboot linux, i have to readd the printer every time. i have yet to figure out why. my printer is detected properly and prints the test page during mandrake installation and after i reinstall the printer with printtool, but every time i reboot, i have to remove and readd the printer with printtool. i have an hp officejet 570, using the driver reccomended by printtool. Print tool is probably not saving the configuration info, try printerdrake Secondly, i have been trying to add a window manager (fluxbox) to the kdm login menu. everything works fine until i reboot and my modified kdmrc is apparently overwritten. until i reboot, everything is fine and it's on the menu, but once i reboot, the changes to kdmrc are gone. after modifying it again and restarting kdm its fine again so i'm pretty sure that's that only problem. i have sifted through /etc/rc.d/* with regrep and haven't found the problem yet. i followed a few leads from there to a few other files but still haven't found a script that overwrites kdmrc. can someone offer me some insight on this problem? Add it through the session manager applet in the KDE Control Center instead. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+WpgbGu5uuMFlL5MRAi4MAJ4yOTxTuU9SWbIaJfTsRLVhM08QoQCfa/pT ug+vJnYgDx1YeDmr5X4Arzg= =bawz -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing a file list
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 20:01:04 -0800 Larry Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 03 February 2003 18:08, Todd Slater wrote: I don't know if you mean print to a printer or not, but you can always dols directory .toc, then print .toc. I made .toc a dot file because if you don't and you write it to the same directory you're listing, it will count itself as a file and get listed. Never understood that one. It gets counted because the first thing done in the command is to open the output. In this case, a file is opened to receive stdout. Then the ls command is executed. Since the file exists, it will be included. One way around it is to make it hidden by using a leading dot like you mentioned. x That helps, thanks for the explanation, Larry. I'm just going to keep on thinking it's magic that it knows to open that file before it does the other stuff that comes before it. I always assumed it was linear, left to right, in such a simple sequence. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing a file list
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 18:16, Todd Slater wrote: That helps, thanks for the explanation, Larry. I'm just going to keep on thinking it's magic that it knows to open that file before it does the other stuff that comes before it. I always assumed it was linear, left to right, in such a simple sequence. Sounds good, Todd. I took an Intro to Unix class at a community college a couple years ago and discovered that bit of trivia there. I think it was under the heading of Magic, sub-heading of Slight-of-Code. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing a file list
umm.. something like: ls * file-list.txt then open that file in an editor and print? On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 01:56, Dennis Myers wrote: Can someone tell me if there is a way to print the list of names in a directory that holds about 70 .jpg pictures? I just want a list of the photo names. TIA for any help. -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing Woes
On Sunday 19 Jan 2003 10:18 pm, Chuck Burns wrote: I have a Xerox DocuPrint C11, and a shared OfficeJet d155xi on another computer. Here's the deal. If I print in grayscale, everything comes out beautifully, on both printers, however, if I print in color, it's all wavey and stuff.. like the printer heads arent seeking properly, or something. They both print fine under windows. Both printers have tri-color cartridges AND black cartridges, loaded at the same time. Does anyone have any idea what could be going on here? Check in MCC printer setup, under advanced tag, to see if there are different versions of the driver for each of them. If so, change it and try again. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing Woes
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 09:18, Chuck Burns wrote: I have a Xerox DocuPrint C11, and a shared OfficeJet d155xi on another computer. Here's the deal. If I print in grayscale, everything comes out beautifully, on both printers, however, if I print in color, it's all wavey and stuff.. like the printer heads arent seeking properly, or something. They both print fine under windows. Both printers have tri-color cartridges AND black cartridges, loaded at the same time. Does anyone have any idea what could be going on here? In some instances it's better to set up two pseudo printers for each printer - one optimised for b/w, the other for color. I have to do that with my HP 656c - but it works great if in the end...and I don't mind switching when I have to... -- Mon Jan 20 17:50:00 EST 2003 5:50pm up 4 days, 3:33, 6 users, load average: 0.20, 0.36, 0.21 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- It's from Casablanca. I've been waiting all my life to use that line. -- Woody Allen, Play It Again, Sam Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing to PDF from OO
On Thursday 26 Dec 2002 12:42 pm, Rob Lindsay wrote: Have followed advice from many helpful people [thank you] and have most of the applications I am likely to use printing to PDF [I don't have a printer connected to this 'puter]. These files open with PS PDF Viewer and also with Acrobat 4.0 on Win4Lin. Would dearly like to be able to print to PDF from OpenOffice, and when I go to the printer within it I am channelled towards a generic printer under which I can select to print to file as PS or PDF. When I select PDF, the files open in PS and PDF Viewer, but don't open on W4L/Acrobat. Acrobat comes back with a dialogue which says There was an error opening this document - File does not begin with '%PDF-' I would like PDF files which I generate with OO to open on Mac and Win machines at work. Could someone suggest where I'm going wrong, please? Rob There is a section on my home page which may help you derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing to PDF from OO
Hi Rob, I had the same problem and could not resolve it. But, for whatever it is worth, Kword makes very good PDF files. That's what I have been using since. Good look! Andrei __ Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered Linux user: 226850 Registered Linux computer: 183163 Have followed advice from many helpful people [thank you] and have most of the applications I am likely to use printing to PDF [I don't have a printer connected to this 'puter]. These files open with PS PDF Viewer and also with Acrobat 4.0 on Win4Lin. Would dearly like to be able to print to PDF from OpenOffice, and when I go to the printer within it I am channelled towards a generic printer under which I can select to print to file as PS or PDF. When I select PDF, the files open in PS and PDF Viewer, but don't open on W4L/Acrobat. Acrobat comes back with a dialogue which says There was an error opening this document - File does not begin with '%PDF-' I would like PDF files which I generate with OO to open on Mac and Win machines at work. Could someone suggest where I'm going wrong, please? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemailxAPID=42PS=47575PI=7324DI=7474SU= http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsgHL=1216hotmailtaglines_addphotos_3mf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing to PDF from OO
Rob Lindsay wrote: Have followed advice from many helpful people [thank you] and have most of the applications I am likely to use printing to PDF [I don't have a printer connected to this 'puter]. These files open with PS PDF Viewer and also with Acrobat 4.0 on Win4Lin. Would dearly like to be able to print to PDF from OpenOffice, and when I go to the printer within it I am channelled towards a generic printer under which I can select to print to file as PS or PDF. When I select PDF, the files open in PS and PDF Viewer, but don't open on W4L/Acrobat. Acrobat comes back with a dialogue which says There was an error opening this document - File does not begin with '%PDF-' I would like PDF files which I generate with OO to open on Mac and Win machines at work. Could someone suggest where I'm going wrong, please? You need to go into spadmin. Click Add New Printer then click on PDF converter to create a PDF pseudoprinter. Sir Robin -- Do unto others what you would like others to do unto you. And have fun doing it. - Linus Torvalds Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent University Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing to PDF from OO
Hi Andrei, My experience with Kword and PDF files is that the font are not reliable. This may be because I am relying on a limited set. I don't think I've got any TT fonts loaded. I have found that Scribus produces much more reliable font performance in PDF output. Am looking into putting a more up-to-date version of this application to work. Have downloaded the scribus-0.8.tar.gz but it looks as though I will have to get hold of QT 3.03 or higher to make this work. Can I get this from the Mandrake site? When I try to ./configure at present the whole thing crashes out complaining about gcc. The version of Scribus which came with the MD 8.1 3 CD download set is 0.3 and is a bit limited, but very promising! Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Printing to PDF from OO
Sir Robin wrote: snip You need to go into spadmin. Click Add New Printer then click on PDF converter to create a PDF pseudoprinter. endsnip Thanks for the solution, but how do I go into spadmin and do what you suggest. I have found the spadmin link in the OpenOffice.org folder but have no idea how to follow your instructions. Please could you spell it out for me. I'm a rank-newbie just keeping my head above water! Thanks, Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing envelopes
On Wednesday 18 Dec 2002 4:22 am, Linus Drouhard wrote: Anne, I don't print many envelopes and I don't make them part of the main document. The OO letter function does not work quite as well as MS Office. It just formats a page that happens to be envelope size. If there's a way for it to automatically recognize the address from a letter, for instance, I don't know how to accomplish that. If you highlight an address it does paste it into the envelope. However, if the envelope function is dodgy it's better avoided for the present, although it looks as though it is getting close. For the moment, I'll do it your way. I just start a new document, set the page format to envelope, type that addresses and print. That suits me for the very few envelopes I do print. I have not had any trouble with OO restarting itself. I had this problem under 8.2, first install, but when I re-installed 8.2 OO behaved perfectly. I've had a few other difficulties with MDK 9.0, browsers that suddenly quit communication to printer, Galeon freezing all the time, Software Updater has never worked, and a few other annoyances. I fixed the browsers be removing and reinstalling. I've not figured out Software Updater, it connects but won't download a thing from any connected server. I've none of those problems. I think the frustrating thing is that we don't understand what's going on. The fact that one person has a persistant problem while another with a very similar setup has none makes it very confusing. Oh, well, now I'm wandering far off topic. I don't have any other ideas for you on OO except to try the old Microsoft solution of remove and reinstall. I personally hate that approach as I want to know what's wrong and fix it directly. Me too. Ah well - learning experiences ;-) Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing envelopes
At 10:22 PM 12/17/2002 -0600, you wrote: Anne, I don't print many envelopes and I don't make them part of the main document. The OO letter function does not work quite as well as MS Office. It just formats a page that happens to be envelope size. If there's a way for it to automatically recognize the address from a letter, for instance, I don't know how to accomplish that. I'm a simpleton, I guess. I just start a new document, set the page format to envelope, type that addresses and print. That suits me for the very few envelopes I do print. I have not had any trouble with OO restarting itself. I've had a few other difficulties with MDK 9.0, browsers that suddenly quit communication to printer, Galeon freezing all the time, Software Updater has never worked, and a few other annoyances. I fixed the browsers be removing and reinstalling. I've not figured out Software Updater, it connects but won't download a thing from any connected server. Oh, well, now I'm wandering far off topic. I don't have any other ideas for you on OO except to try the old Microsoft solution of remove and reinstall. I personally hate that approach as I want to know what's wrong and fix it directly. Good luck. Linus On Monday 16 December 2002 04:47 am, Anne Wilson wrote: OK, Linus. Now I need some pointers. I'm used to Lotus WordPro, which recognises an envelope as a separate section, changing the orientation for that section only. In OOo I found that creating an envelope put the envelope as page 1 of the document. Can that page be re-oriented without affecting the body of the letter? My problem is that everything is, quite reasonably, I suppose, done to make change from MSOffice easy, but if you didn't use that anyway it can be a struggle to find how to achieve things. Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. I do find that if I do something that upsets OOo it goes into this spontaneous re-boot, often corrupting the file as well. I had to re-type a long one yesterday because of that. Anne On Monday 16 Dec 2002 3:11 am, Linus Drouhard wrote: I print envelopes on occasion with OO. No problems or special setup. I just set the envelope into landscape mode and it works fine. Linus On Sunday 15 December 2002 01:45 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Has anyone cracked printing envelopes? In OOo and SO6 I get a spontaneous reboot as soon as I try to do it. John, do you print envelopes in KWrite? There has to be a way - it's degrading to have to use windows to print the envelope. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com you may want to resend that to whoever you meant to send it to :P - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing envelopes
At 03:02 PM 12/18/2002 -0700, you wrote: At 10:22 PM 12/17/2002 -0600, you wrote: you may want to resend that to whoever you meant to send it to :P - FemmeFatale Sorry that was a misfire :P Heh hit reply by accident on something in the trash - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing envelopes
Anne, I don't print many envelopes and I don't make them part of the main document. The OO letter function does not work quite as well as MS Office. It just formats a page that happens to be envelope size. If there's a way for it to automatically recognize the address from a letter, for instance, I don't know how to accomplish that. I'm a simpleton, I guess. I just start a new document, set the page format to envelope, type that addresses and print. That suits me for the very few envelopes I do print. I have not had any trouble with OO restarting itself. I've had a few other difficulties with MDK 9.0, browsers that suddenly quit communication to printer, Galeon freezing all the time, Software Updater has never worked, and a few other annoyances. I fixed the browsers be removing and reinstalling. I've not figured out Software Updater, it connects but won't download a thing from any connected server. Oh, well, now I'm wandering far off topic. I don't have any other ideas for you on OO except to try the old Microsoft solution of remove and reinstall. I personally hate that approach as I want to know what's wrong and fix it directly. Good luck. Linus On Monday 16 December 2002 04:47 am, Anne Wilson wrote: OK, Linus. Now I need some pointers. I'm used to Lotus WordPro, which recognises an envelope as a separate section, changing the orientation for that section only. In OOo I found that creating an envelope put the envelope as page 1 of the document. Can that page be re-oriented without affecting the body of the letter? My problem is that everything is, quite reasonably, I suppose, done to make change from MSOffice easy, but if you didn't use that anyway it can be a struggle to find how to achieve things. Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. I do find that if I do something that upsets OOo it goes into this spontaneous re-boot, often corrupting the file as well. I had to re-type a long one yesterday because of that. Anne On Monday 16 Dec 2002 3:11 am, Linus Drouhard wrote: I print envelopes on occasion with OO. No problems or special setup. I just set the envelope into landscape mode and it works fine. Linus On Sunday 15 December 2002 01:45 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Has anyone cracked printing envelopes? In OOo and SO6 I get a spontaneous reboot as soon as I try to do it. John, do you print envelopes in KWrite? There has to be a way - it's degrading to have to use windows to print the envelope. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing envelopes
OK, Linus. Now I need some pointers. I'm used to Lotus WordPro, which recognises an envelope as a separate section, changing the orientation for that section only. In OOo I found that creating an envelope put the envelope as page 1 of the document. Can that page be re-oriented without affecting the body of the letter? My problem is that everything is, quite reasonably, I suppose, done to make change from MSOffice easy, but if you didn't use that anyway it can be a struggle to find how to achieve things. Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. I do find that if I do something that upsets OOo it goes into this spontaneous re-boot, often corrupting the file as well. I had to re-type a long one yesterday because of that. Anne On Monday 16 Dec 2002 3:11 am, Linus Drouhard wrote: I print envelopes on occasion with OO. No problems or special setup. I just set the envelope into landscape mode and it works fine. Linus On Sunday 15 December 2002 01:45 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Has anyone cracked printing envelopes? In OOo and SO6 I get a spontaneous reboot as soon as I try to do it. John, do you print envelopes in KWrite? There has to be a way - it's degrading to have to use windows to print the envelope. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing envelopes
I print envelopes on occasion with OO. No problems or special setup. I just set the envelope into landscape mode and it works fine. Linus On Sunday 15 December 2002 01:45 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Has anyone cracked printing envelopes? In OOo and SO6 I get a spontaneous reboot as soon as I try to do it. John, do you print envelopes in KWrite? There has to be a way - it's degrading to have to use windows to print the envelope. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from the net
I'd let you keep the house I would like Meta and the other characters back. - Original Message - From: Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 8:45 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Printing from the net Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 22 Sep 2002 5:28 pm, you wrote: Dear All, Printing works fine on my LM8.2 with my HP 940c deskjet printer (USB) except when I try to print from the net, email, or xpdf. It works in all of the other applications I believe. Any help will be appreciated. Can't answer this, but I can add a bit that might spark inspiration in someone more knowledgeable. My printer is a DJ 990, so should be identical to yours (940 is, I believe somewhat slower and without the duplexer, but otherwise identical). I have printing from a browser, but no control. Printing from every browser I have tried does not allow me access to any of my setup printers. It specifies PostScript/Default, shows a dropdown box, but that has no other entries in. This seems to be the setting for the default printer, without any possibility of changing any properties/settings. Hope someone can use this to come up with an answer for you Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Dear Anne, Thank you for this added info. Mine does the same thing from browsers, but does not print. I am sure there has to be a simple solution. Thanks. Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from the net
On Wednesday 25 Sep 2002 2:03 pm, you wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I'm pretty sure it was the cups+Gimp-print setup that caused my problems. Is it worth changing this one to Foomatic+hpijs to see if it disappears? If it does, you could always re-think why you wanted the Gimp-print and see if you really need it or if alternative settings would help. Anne On Tuesday 24 Sep 2002 5:01 pm, you wrote: Dear Erik and Anne, Thanks for helping with this. I configured my printer with cups at the beginning then went to the www webmin admin to setup with one as lp using Foomatic + hpijs, and the other xpp using cups+Gimp-printv4.2.0. This setup always worked fine for me in earlier distributions of LM. Any suggestions? Erik wrote: Marcia and Anne: I may have missed it, but I haven't seen info on how the printer was set up originally? Did you set it up to use CUPS, Post Script or both in LM8.2? When I see HP, I immediately think Post Script, but I'm not that familiar with them in Linux...in Windows they can be a real PITA. When I set up my Epson 740 USB, I set it up in CUPS as Printer (printer0) and in Post Script as Printer1. Now, the only problems I have printing from the net or email is when someone includes emoticons with those, I have to select all, copy and paste into OO, remove the emoticon(s) and then print. HTH, Erik Marcia wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 22 Sep 2002 5:28 pm, you wrote: Dear All, Printing works fine on my LM8.2 with my HP 940c deskjet printer (USB) except when I try to print from the net, email, or xpdf. It works in all of the other applications I believe. Any help will be appreciated. Can't answer this, but I can add a bit that might spark inspiration in someone more knowledgeable. My printer is a DJ 990, so should be identical to yours (940 is, I believe somewhat slower and without the duplexer, but otherwise identical). I have printing from a browser, but no control. Printing from every browser I have tried does not allow me access to any of my setup printers. It specifies PostScript/Default, shows a dropdown box, but that has no other entries in. This seems to be the setting for the default printer, without any possibility of changing any properties/settings. Hope someone can use this to come up with an answer for you Anne -- - - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Dear Anne, Thank you for this added info. Mine does the same thing from browsers, but does not print. I am sure there has to be a simple solution. Thanks. Marcia Well, this is a surprise. I will try it without cups then and see what happens. Thank you for the suggestion. I'm not really sure at what point cups is active. I still can configure the printers under the cups management tool, and I am still printing via cups as far as I can tell, but the Foomatic+hpijs is what shows up as the drivers. HTH Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from the net
Anne Wilson wrote: I'm pretty sure it was the cups+Gimp-print setup that caused my problems. Is it worth changing this one to Foomatic+hpijs to see if it disappears? If it does, you could always re-think why you wanted the Gimp-print and see if you really need it or if alternative settings would help. Anne On Tuesday 24 Sep 2002 5:01 pm, you wrote: Dear Erik and Anne, Thanks for helping with this. I configured my printer with cups at the beginning then went to the www webmin admin to setup with one as lp using Foomatic + hpijs, and the other xpp using cups+Gimp-printv4.2.0. This setup always worked fine for me in earlier distributions of LM. Any suggestions? Erik wrote: Marcia and Anne: I may have missed it, but I haven't seen info on how the printer was set up originally? Did you set it up to use CUPS, Post Script or both in LM8.2? When I see HP, I immediately think Post Script, but I'm not that familiar with them in Linux...in Windows they can be a real PITA. When I set up my Epson 740 USB, I set it up in CUPS as Printer (printer0) and in Post Script as Printer1. Now, the only problems I have printing from the net or email is when someone includes emoticons with those, I have to select all, copy and paste into OO, remove the emoticon(s) and then print. HTH, Erik Marcia wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 22 Sep 2002 5:28 pm, you wrote: Dear All, Printing works fine on my LM8.2 with my HP 940c deskjet printer (USB) except when I try to print from the net, email, or xpdf. It works in all of the other applications I believe. Any help will be appreciated. Can't answer this, but I can add a bit that might spark inspiration in someone more knowledgeable. My printer is a DJ 990, so should be identical to yours (940 is, I believe somewhat slower and without the duplexer, but otherwise identical). I have printing from a browser, but no control. Printing from every browser I have tried does not allow me access to any of my setup printers. It specifies PostScript/Default, shows a dropdown box, but that has no other entries in. This seems to be the setting for the default printer, without any possibility of changing any properties/settings. Hope someone can use this to come up with an answer for you Anne --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Dear Anne, Thank you for this added info. Mine does the same thing from browsers, but does not print. I am sure there has to be a simple solution. Thanks. Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Well, this is a surprise. I will try it without cups then and see what happens. Thank you for the suggestion. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from the net
Hi Erik I think I originally set up the printer configurations (I have four, with settings for specific purposes) from Mandrake Control Center. Using the CUPS printer management tool I find that they are using Foomatic + hpijs. The problem is that my default setup is two-sided, two up, which is great for long documents in relatively large fonts, as many web pages are, but impossible on some pages, which I would like to print out in 1-up from another printer setting. Not sure that this helps Marcia, though, as her problem is more serious - no printing at all from the web, I think Anne On Monday 23 Sep 2002 8:42 pm, you wrote: Marcia and Anne: I may have missed it, but I haven't seen info on how the printer was set up originally? Did you set it up to use CUPS, Post Script or both in LM8.2? When I see HP, I immediately think Post Script, but I'm not that familiar with them in Linux...in Windows they can be a real PITA. When I set up my Epson 740 USB, I set it up in CUPS as Printer (printer0) and in Post Script as Printer1. Now, the only problems I have printing from the net or email is when someone includes emoticons with those, I have to select all, copy and paste into OO, remove the emoticon(s) and then print. HTH, Erik Marcia wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 22 Sep 2002 5:28 pm, you wrote: Dear All, Printing works fine on my LM8.2 with my HP 940c deskjet printer (USB) except when I try to print from the net, email, or xpdf. It works in all of the other applications I believe. Any help will be appreciated. Can't answer this, but I can add a bit that might spark inspiration in someone more knowledgeable. My printer is a DJ 990, so should be identical to yours (940 is, I believe somewhat slower and without the duplexer, but otherwise identical). I have printing from a browser, but no control. Printing from every browser I have tried does not allow me access to any of my setup printers. It specifies PostScript/Default, shows a dropdown box, but that has no other entries in. This seems to be the setting for the default printer, without any possibility of changing any properties/settings. Hope someone can use this to come up with an answer for you Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Dear Anne, Thank you for this added info. Mine does the same thing from browsers, but does not print. I am sure there has to be a simple solution. Thanks. Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from the net
Dear Erik and Anne, Thanks for helping with this. I configured my printer with cups at the beginning then went to the www webmin admin to setup with one as lp using Foomatic + hpijs, and the other xpp using cups+Gimp-printv4.2.0. This setup always worked fine for me in earlier distributions of LM. Any suggestions? Erik wrote: Marcia and Anne: I may have missed it, but I haven't seen info on how the printer was set up originally? Did you set it up to use CUPS, Post Script or both in LM8.2? When I see HP, I immediately think Post Script, but I'm not that familiar with them in Linux...in Windows they can be a real PITA. When I set up my Epson 740 USB, I set it up in CUPS as Printer (printer0) and in Post Script as Printer1. Now, the only problems I have printing from the net or email is when someone includes emoticons with those, I have to select all, copy and paste into OO, remove the emoticon(s) and then print. HTH, Erik Marcia wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 22 Sep 2002 5:28 pm, you wrote: Dear All, Printing works fine on my LM8.2 with my HP 940c deskjet printer (USB) except when I try to print from the net, email, or xpdf. It works in all of the other applications I believe. Any help will be appreciated. Can't answer this, but I can add a bit that might spark inspiration in someone more knowledgeable. My printer is a DJ 990, so should be identical to yours (940 is, I believe somewhat slower and without the duplexer, but otherwise identical). I have printing from a browser, but no control. Printing from every browser I have tried does not allow me access to any of my setup printers. It specifies PostScript/Default, shows a dropdown box, but that has no other entries in. This seems to be the setting for the default printer, without any possibility of changing any properties/settings. Hope someone can use this to come up with an answer for you Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Dear Anne, Thank you for this added info. Mine does the same thing from browsers, but does not print. I am sure there has to be a simple solution. Thanks. Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from the net
On Sunday 22 Sep 2002 5:28 pm, you wrote: Dear All, Printing works fine on my LM8.2 with my HP 940c deskjet printer (USB) except when I try to print from the net, email, or xpdf. It works in all of the other applications I believe. Any help will be appreciated. Can't answer this, but I can add a bit that might spark inspiration in someone more knowledgeable. My printer is a DJ 990, so should be identical to yours (940 is, I believe somewhat slower and without the duplexer, but otherwise identical). I have printing from a browser, but no control. Printing from every browser I have tried does not allow me access to any of my setup printers. It specifies PostScript/Default, shows a dropdown box, but that has no other entries in. This seems to be the setting for the default printer, without any possibility of changing any properties/settings. Hope someone can use this to come up with an answer for you Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from the net
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 22 Sep 2002 5:28 pm, you wrote: Dear All, Printing works fine on my LM8.2 with my HP 940c deskjet printer (USB) except when I try to print from the net, email, or xpdf. It works in all of the other applications I believe. Any help will be appreciated. Can't answer this, but I can add a bit that might spark inspiration in someone more knowledgeable. My printer is a DJ 990, so should be identical to yours (940 is, I believe somewhat slower and without the duplexer, but otherwise identical). I have printing from a browser, but no control. Printing from every browser I have tried does not allow me access to any of my setup printers. It specifies PostScript/Default, shows a dropdown box, but that has no other entries in. This seems to be the setting for the default printer, without any possibility of changing any properties/settings. Hope someone can use this to come up with an answer for you Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Dear Anne, Thank you for this added info. Mine does the same thing from browsers, but does not print. I am sure there has to be a simple solution. Thanks. Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from the net
Marcia and Anne: I may have missed it, but I haven't seen info on how the printer was set up originally? Did you set it up to use CUPS, Post Script or both in LM8.2? When I see HP, I immediately think Post Script, but I'm not that familiar with them in Linux...in Windows they can be a real PITA. When I set up my Epson 740 USB, I set it up in CUPS as Printer (printer0) and in Post Script as Printer1. Now, the only problems I have printing from the net or email is when someone includes emoticons with those, I have to select all, copy and paste into OO, remove the emoticon(s) and then print. HTH, Erik Marcia wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 22 Sep 2002 5:28 pm, you wrote: Dear All, Printing works fine on my LM8.2 with my HP 940c deskjet printer (USB) except when I try to print from the net, email, or xpdf. It works in all of the other applications I believe. Any help will be appreciated. Can't answer this, but I can add a bit that might spark inspiration in someone more knowledgeable. My printer is a DJ 990, so should be identical to yours (940 is, I believe somewhat slower and without the duplexer, but otherwise identical). I have printing from a browser, but no control. Printing from every browser I have tried does not allow me access to any of my setup printers. It specifies PostScript/Default, shows a dropdown box, but that has no other entries in. This seems to be the setting for the default printer, without any possibility of changing any properties/settings. Hope someone can use this to come up with an answer for you Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Dear Anne, Thank you for this added info. Mine does the same thing from browsers, but does not print. I am sure there has to be a simple solution. Thanks. Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing
where did you find the info to set up cups that is some i will need to do very soon thanks greg David Seuferer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for those who replied! Using cups worked! I can now print!! David Seuferer, CNE Ames Laboratory Information Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: (515) 294-5638 phone: (515) 294-6053 It comes in pints!?Pippin -- Linux The Number one Os __ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing
On Thursday 29 August 2002 04:33 pm, you wrote: Hello, I can't seem to get my printing to work. I've got Mandrake 8.2 and I'm trying to print to a networked HPLJ4SIMX printer using LPR. It says it's printing but nothing every comes out. I've deleted and re-added the printer several times using Mandrake Control Center. Any ideas on what I could try? David Seuferer, CNE Ames Laboratory Information Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: (515) 294-5638 phone: (515) 294-6053 It comes in pints!?Pippin h, try printing with cups? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing
On Thursday 29 August 2002 14:33, David Seuferer wrote: Hello, I can't seem to get my printing to work. I've got Mandrake 8.2 and I'm trying to print to a networked HPLJ4SIMX printer using LPR. It says it's printing but nothing every comes out. I've deleted and re-added the printer several times using Mandrake Control Center. Any ideas on what I could try? I used the CUPS www admin tool after installing SAMBA, here is what I have my HPLJ set at: Description: HP Laserjet IIIsi Location: //10.10.50.3/printer$ Printer State: idle, accepting jobs. Device URI: smb://linda/laserjet HTH, Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing
use lpr-cups instead. Mandrake 8.2 (which I run) changed to the cups printer server and everything needs to go through it. If you have any questions about how it's configured, try going in through webmin (browser at localhost:1). It's under the Servers tab. Good luck! I didn't have this email list at the time, and spent two weeks figuring out how to do it. On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 14:33, David Seuferer wrote: Hello, I can't seem to get my printing to work. I've got Mandrake 8.2 and I'm trying to print to a networked HPLJ4SIMX printer using LPR. It says it's printing but nothing every comes out. I've deleted and re-added the printer several times using Mandrake Control Center. Any ideas on what I could try? David Seuferer, CNE Ames Laboratory Information Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: (515) 294-5638 phone: (515) 294-6053 It comes in pints!?Pippin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- David A. Bartmess Sr. Software Configuration Manager eDingo Enterprises http://edingo.net But one should not forget that money can buy a bed but not sleep, finery but not beauty, a house but not a home, medicine but not health, luxuries but not culture, sex but not love, and amusements but not happiness. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing and fax in OO
Meanwhile, I uninstalled and re-installed, but I'm confiused now. I used File Manager Super User to install from the 3rd disk. I thought that I had understood that this would install the root part of the program, but that it was then necessary to run the workstation installation - which would be required at the first use. I feel like such a schmuck when I read descriptions like this. I really have almost no clue how to use the GUI tools. I am almost completely a CLI tool guy. How backwards is that? -- Brendan Linux-Mandrake 8.2/WinXP (for the DVD-out card on the boob tube) Running on: http://homebase.servebeer.com/direct/bmcompspecs.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing and fax in OO
On Thu, 08 Aug 2002 20:56:18 -0400, Brendan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meanwhile, I uninstalled and re-installed, but I'm confiused now. I used File Manager Super User to install from the 3rd disk. I thought that I had understood that this would install the root part of the program, but that it was then necessary to run the workstation installation - which would be required at the first use. I feel like such a schmuck when I read descriptions like this. I really have almost no clue how to use the GUI tools. I am almost completely a CLI tool guy. How backwards is that? I've never tried to install from Mandrakes rpms, I've always installed from a download from www.openoffice.org, currently version 1.0.1 I'm running it on Mandrake 8.1. Works fine. Try this then, from a console: From the directory where you decompressed the install file: (make sure you have 250 MB free on hard disk) as root, # ./setup -net (put in /opt/OOo101) (run to completion) (if you have java fine, if not fine) as user, $ ./setup (in /home/user/OOo101) (run to completion) Copy add'l dictionaries to /home/user/OOo101/share/dict/ooo/* This is the best way I've found to install OOorg. I haven't had much luck with the Install script. saludos, Richard. -- Brendan Linux-Mandrake 8.2/WinXP (for the DVD-out card on the boob tube) Running on: http://homebase.servebeer.com/direct/bmcompspecs.htm -- http://es.openoffice.org -//- Servicios GO-TRO,ca v/f:0265-641-0003 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing help pages
I can't remember any other apps that I can't print. My printer has two set-ups defined. Some apps let me choose, and some use what I presume is a My feeling is that if you can print from one kde app you should be able to print from any other, as they all use the same printing subsystem. I'm guessing you're using CUPS, is that true? Try printing first from kedit or some other lightweight app. If the print choice is greyed out in Kedit as well as in the helper app then there's something amiss in KDE's idea of what printer is set up. Your existing printer setup should appear under System - Printing Manager in the KDE Control Center app. FWIW I'm using a bjc250. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing help pages
On Wednesday 17 Jul 2002 4:23 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Is there any way to print KDE help pages? The print icon is greyed out and Ctl-P doesn't work. I know I could copy text into a WP, but then I would have to snapshot pictures, etc, and it would be very long-winded. Anne I think this question should really be Why is my printer icon greyed out Mine isn't, and I can print Help pages. Can you print in other KDE apps? derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing help pages
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 17 July 2002 12:17 pm, Derek Jennings did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I think this question should really be Why is my printer icon greyed out Mine isn't, and I can print Help pages. Can you print in other KDE apps? I should add that I am running KDE 3. I checked on my other computer which has KDE2 and the printer icon is greyed out. On the other hand it does not have a printer (other than one networked through CUPS) i have a cups printer on my kde3 machine. works. kde2 have a help print bug? or can you not print at all Anne? - -- A senior Microsoft Corp. executive told a federal court that some Microsoft code was so flawed it could not be safely disclosed. Can you say Trustworthy Computing? shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9NeopBwq+ZwvIN/oRAtYOAJwK07h50F0kkzsh9U2gZzV2s9rz7ACeNm0k +5fkTKQ8M3NpPVuXinMTqm8= =fTpz -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing help pages
On Wednesday 17 Jul 2002 6:14 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 17 Jul 2002 4:23 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Is there any way to print KDE help pages? The print icon is greyed out and Ctl-P doesn't work. I know I could copy text into a WP, but then I would have to snapshot pictures, etc, and it would be very long-winded. Anne I think this question should really be Why is my printer icon greyed out Mine isn't, and I can print Help pages. Can you print in other KDE apps? derek I can't remember any other apps that I can't print. My printer has two set-ups defined. Some apps let me choose, and some use what I presume is a generic printer, but appears to be based on my default settings. Browsers are the main ones that do that - and there is virtually no control over settings when that happens. But generally I can print anything else, I think Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing
I went through the same thing and what cured it for me was updating the cups server and various other cups related software using mandrake update. Roly On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 04:51, Azrael wrote: I guess I must seem to be Mr Problem A Day - just installed mandrake chap... but here goes. I installed an epson stylus color 680 usb printer on mandrake 8.2 using CUPS and all seemed to go well. Auto recognised, etc etc. Now a normal user tries to print from galeon.. it sends it to the right printer.. but appears to only ever print out half the pages (first half). Also.. it doesn't seem to always print straight away.. sometimes when not printing at all I run printerdrake as root just to try and give cups a kick up the backside to get working.. and that seems to do the trick... CUPS is initialised at boot .. so it is / or should be running anyway... does anyone recognise the symptoms.. can anyone advise me of any solutions? many thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- The directions said to install Windows 98/2000 or better! So I installed Linux! Linux Counter: 241069 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing
On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 10:33, Roland Hughes wrote: I went through the same thing and what cured it for me was updating the cups server and various other cups related software using mandrake update. Roly On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 04:51, Azrael wrote: I guess I must seem to be Mr Problem A Day - just installed mandrake chap... but here goes. Only one problem a day! That's not even trying ;-) In case Roland's advice was not quite specific enough, let me suggest a list: cups-drivers-1.1-48.1mdk.i586.rpm foomatic-1.1-0.20020323mdk.i586.rpm printer-filters-1.0-48.1mdk.i586.rpm printer-testpages-1.0-48.1mdk.i586.rpm printer-utils-1.0-48.1mdk.i586.rpm rpm -Uvh those and you should be in business. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing to XP
On Saturday 18 May 2002 9:16 am, Mark Annandale wrote: Hi Guys Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but here goes. I am running Mandrake 8.2 with KDE3 and would like to print using a printer attached to the USB port on a PC running XP Pro. I can see and access all directories on the XP box as well as see and access shared directories on my Linux box. But I cannot get to print. I know the easiest thing to do is connect the printer to the linux box, but thats too easy, and besides the rest of my family would complain bitterly if I removed the printer from the little home network we have. Thank you and kind regards mark Have you enabled printer sharing in XP? If so you should be able to see the printer when you browse your network with Komba2 (or LinNeighborhood or Gnomba) Also kups or KDE Control CentreSystemPrint Manager should show it in the list of printers. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing to XP
just wondering why, when running Printing Manager, that all my backend selection are greyed out when running the add printer wizard... so i can't add any printers. currently running mandrake 8.2, just installed cups common. printer is physically connected to a win98 pc, with print and file sharing enabled, and printer-sharing is working on another pc running winxp mandrake and win98 is already sharing files thru samba. would appreciate any advice or pointers to other help sources/web-pages. - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mark Annandale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 6:11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Printing to XP On Saturday 18 May 2002 9:16 am, Mark Annandale wrote: Hi Guys Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but here goes. I am running Mandrake 8.2 with KDE3 and would like to print using a printer attached to the USB port on a PC running XP Pro. I can see and access all directories on the XP box as well as see and access shared directories on my Linux box. But I cannot get to print. I know the easiest thing to do is connect the printer to the linux box, but thats too easy, and besides the rest of my family would complain bitterly if I removed the printer from the little home network we have. Thank you and kind regards mark Have you enabled printer sharing in XP? If so you should be able to see the printer when you browse your network with Komba2 (or LinNeighborhood or Gnomba) Also kups or KDE Control CentreSystemPrint Manager should show it in the list of printers. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing to Window$ domain printers using CUPS and Samba
On Tuesday 14 May 2002 1:58 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote: I'm still having trouble getting printing to work using MDK 8.2 using CUPS and Samba. I think I may have narrowed down the problem though. When I add a SMB shared printer using the wizard in KUPS, I have noticed that CUPS tries to use my laptop's integrated network card (eth0)to send the printing through. I am using a wireless network card (eth1) for my networking. Is there a way I can tell CUPS to use eth1 instead of eth0? Thanks for the help! Terry If you do not use this interface at all have you tried disabling it first in the BIOS and if that is not possible using netconf to disable that adapter? Alternatively if you do need both interfaces then open kups (or KDE Control CentreSystemPrint manager as root) Select 'Configure server' (Which is the second 'spanner' (or 'wrench' depending on which country you live in) from the right.) Select Connection and set the 'broadcast address' to include the interface(s) you wish CUPS messages to go over e.g. 192.167.1.255 That should do the trick derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
