I can offer a package that ,when installed, will always ensure that documents are printed on the computer's default printer no matter which machine you might pass the document to.
Does that help On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 23:40, Mathias Bauer wrote: > Joe Smith wrote: > > > Mathias Bauer wrote: > >> Unfortunately OOo Calc and Impress use the printer not only for printing > >> but also for retrieval of some settings ... > > > > Could you tell us briefly what settings a document needs from the printer? > > > > I thought that OOo documents are device-independent, and that the > > "current printer" could be an application property (like the directory > > where the document lives), not a document property. > > Writer doesn't need any (and so printer settings are not created before > the user asks for them) but obviously Calc and Impress *think* they need > them. It's possible that this is a remnant from the times where document > formatting where printer dependent. In this case it would be just a bug. > But it's also possible that the applications are retrieving something > from the printer settings like e.g. available page formats and page > margins etc. I think that can be changed but without having a closer > look into the code it's hard to be sure and to estimate the effort. > > As I wrote, I'm currently working on this problem and hope to get it > fixed soon, together with the develops of Calc and Impress. Once this is > done we can also think about a way to make storing printer settings > optional as asked for by Kirill. > > Ciao, > Mathias
