jdd wrote:
Michel Rasquin wrote:
(I have a couple of documents which need to be printed out rather quickly (but not as a matter of "life or death") so if someone can provide a quick answer I would be most grateful.)
as a quick fix to printing problems, it's possible to print to pdf (export to pdf with ooo) and print the pdf document
sometime it works...
jdd
<Sigh> Isn't it beyond belief that a piece of software (Megabytes big!) provided by one of the biggest companies has to be 'fiddled' before the damn thing will print a (simple) document produced using this software (OpenOffice)? Due more to good luck than anything, last night I found a simple reference, in a message in the Sun's OpenOffice 'help' forum, which provided me with the information to get OO to print. As you suggest in your response, for which I am grateful, it ALL has to do with outputting the document to a pdf file and then printing that. The whole process involves trickery worthy of Harry Potter. I used Microsoft Office for years, using the printer I mention in my original post (the Lexmark 4039 plus), and it NEVER even considered not printing at the first attempt. Why is OpenOffice such a bitch about printing? Or is it a problem with openSuse? Don't know. Anyway, many thanks for your response and I have finally got OpenOffice to *print* a document! Ciao -- Past experience, if not forgotten, is a guide for the future. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org