I am 'having fun' with 7.3, but I am not having so much fun with printing. I installed CUPS and am hoping to use this, and it is kinda working. I can print to my printer (Canon MultiPASS C5500 connected to my Windows computer downstairs), which I finally got working in 6.4 after just sharing it over the LAN (it is a GDI printer). It printed OK with 6.4 (apsfilter, lprold, ghostscript in 6.4). Now, with CUPS, which actually lists the exact printer driver, it will print from Mozilla, Acrobat reader, tests, etc. (Actually I think I changed the print command in Acrobat to xpp as it printed the formatting characters before that). Star Office 5.2 will not print correctly. I have been studying this problem for some time. Questions: 1. Does CUPS printing need apsfilter? 2. If I am understanding the printing process, this is the sequence. App sends to a filter to convert it to a printable format, then to spooler, then to ghostscript to convert it to the specific printer's format, then to the printer. Is this close? 3. If that is close, since Mozilla (with its default print command, which I think prints as postscript), and Acrobat with its pdf format, print correctly, then I would guess SO5.2's problem is the filter. Does this sound feasable? 4. I am confused about the filtering stage with CUPS. Is it done with mime.convs and mime.types, which only seem to be able to handle very few types, or is it handled before CUPS, thus CUPS only needs to work with the output from ghostscript? If I sound confused, you can rest assured I know I am. :-) Thanks for any help. -- Joe & Sesil Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871
Joe & Sesil Morris (NTM) wrote:
I am 'having fun' with 7.3, but I am not having so much fun with printing. I installed CUPS and am hoping to use this, and it is kinda working. I can print to my printer (Canon MultiPASS C5500 connected to my Windows computer downstairs), which I finally got working in 6.4 after just sharing it over the LAN (it is a GDI printer). It printed OK with 6.4 (apsfilter, lprold, ghostscript in 6.4). Now, with CUPS, which actually lists the exact printer driver, it will print from Mozilla, Acrobat reader, tests, etc. (Actually I think I changed the print command in Acrobat to xpp as it printed the formatting characters before that). Star Office 5.2 will not print correctly. I have been studying this problem for some time.
In my quest to find an answer, I checked out www.linuxprinting.org, and found this, "If you want to print out of PPD-aware applications as Star Office, Open Office, GIMP, ... or from a client (Windows, MacOS), use the same PPD file as you already have downloaded for setting up your printer queue and follow the appropriate instructions http://www.linuxprinting.org/ppd-doc.html. If you the CUPS-O-Matic PPD file for your CUPS setup you must download the PPD-O-Matic PPD file in addition to use it in the application or on the client." So I tried it. I added the driver (as root) from /etc/cups/ppd to SO 5.2. I have just printed the first intelligible output from Start Office. Hopefully this might help some others. -- Joe & Sesil Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871
Hi I'm pretty new at this sort of thing. I use star office 5.2(old I guess)but their is a gui printer setup in there. Star displays many options for me whenever I open it.One of those options is printer setup. I use an HPDeskjet500(dinosaur)and it works well with Star Office. Maybe you have a newer version or something. I hope this helps. cheers
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