On 10-Feb-99 Rachel Greenham wrote:
>
> The only problem I'm having now, is the same problem I'm having with
> Word Perfect 8: Printing. I've set up my box to print to a Samba
> printer elsewhere on the net, and console, KDE apps and Netscape (for
> instance) all print to it fine, but StarOffice and Word Perfect insist
> on trying to print to the Letter sized paper bin. It's very annoying.
> I've changed the configuration to A4 on StarOffice everywhere I could
> find it, and it just ignores me. Word Perfect doesn't even seem to
> give me an option.
This may depend on what physical printer you have and how you've set up
the WP printer driver (I'll mention SO later).
I use a real PS printer, and print from WP straight to lpr using the
Apple LaserWriter driver. It just works. HOWEVER -- in WP, from a blank
document:
- click on the printer
- click on "Select" for the current printer
- if it's the driver you want, click on "Printer Create/Edit"
- click on "Setup"
- check out "Sheet Feeder" and the other stuff.
If all that is OK, then go back to the document:
- click on "File", then "Page Setup" etc.
One way or the other, that should see you right. But, as I say, it may
depend on your physical printer and on the available drivers in WP.
When I was looking at an earlier version of SO, I remember that
organising the printer setup was quite an exercise; some of the
important details were hidden quite deep down and involved a
bit of "quasi-programming". Maybe this has changed with SO5.
Anyway, I got SO4 working OK for printing too.
> It seems ironic to me that major commercial applications whom you would
> expect need more than most to have printing capability (ie:
> office-grade wordprocessors), are the only apps that can't seem to do
> it properly!
WordPerfect since WP6 has, in my view, lost some of the qualities which
made WP-5.1 such a respected product. This is equally true for the
Windows version and the UNIX/Linux versions. The printer drivers are
definitely not as accessible and configurable as they used to be.
And printing "Multinational" (non-ISO-Latin1) characters on WP6/7/8
is an unmitigated and -- at present and quite officially according
to word from Corel/WP themselves -- irrecoverable disaster (they
print in one font only, which does not quite match even the closest of
the fonts used for Latin-1 and may be totally different:
-- try printing Turkish "do[1,117]u" in, say Helvetica Oblique where
the multinational character [1,117] is a "g" with breve accent).
This mess did not exist in 5.1.
Good luck,
Ted.
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Date: 10-Feb-99 Time: 20:05:00
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