On December 6, 2007 09:44:04 pm Basil Chupin wrote:
<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)? First, I'm sorry you're having difficulties printing.
Second, OpenOffice is not provided by a company, it's provided by volunteers. Second, there may well be any number of problems in your computer, your setup, your particular combinations of hardware and setup that don't make make it an OpenOffice problem or an Opensuse problem. Third, you haven't given us much information to enable any one to help you. I appreciate that you're frustrated at not being able to print, but with so many different possible combinations of computer hardware, software, and printers, it's virtually certain that someone will come up with scenarios which don't work. Speaking of my own experience with the five computers I operate and maintain, I've never had any problem printing from OpenOffice in any version for the past five years, with Suse from 9.2 to 10.3.
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.
So at least you can deal with the immediate problem, to get those files printed right away.
The whole process involves trickery worthy of Harry Potter.
Bosh. This is a work-around, not trickery.
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.
Good. Errr...how old is this Lexmark, and what drivers are you using? Are you installing printer drivers with YAST or via CUPS?
Why is OpenOffice such a bitch about printing?
It's not. Why would you assume it is? Millions of people around the world use it without a problem. There obviously is a problem with something on your machine, though.
Or is it a problem with openSuse? Don't know.
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