On 07/16/2010 09:19 AM, Andy Graybeal wrote: > Dear All, > As an ex-top poster and ex-thread hi-jacker, lets see what else I can > screw up. > > I hope to start anew and on good terms and hope everyone will accept my > apologies. I didn't mean to ruin anyones thread or day by using this > mail list incorrectly. Let my ignorance be known and that I feel quite > bad about it, my apologies. I do expect plenty more mistakes to follow. > > I've included Gene Young's reply as well into this posting. > > Here's what I recently posted when I hi-jacked a thread earlier: > > Is there a way to print copies of a document with a script or macro? I > would like to have an icon on the desktop that instantly prints out 30 > copies of a document. The document gets printed often in our > restaurant, it's the kids menu, it has a place to color in pictures and > things. [snipped]
Unfortunately you added Gene's sig (dash dash space) so your reply shows as a sig & needs to be pasted back into the reply: > To get back with you Gene, > We're using Ubuntu 8.10 and soon to be upgraded to 10.04 next week. > I don't know if Ubuntu has the same feature for putting a shortcut of > the printer onto the desktop or not. I just tried to do it in both 8.04 > and 10.04 I couldn't get it to work the same as Windows. > > Would there be a solution as easy as this for Ubuntu? > > -Andy The easiest solution would be to create an 'lp' script (see 'man lp') and then create an desktop icon for the script. This question is probably better asked over on the Ubuntu users list: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users Come on over & their are folks there that can help you tailor the script & set it up. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
