On 10-Feb-99 Rachel Greenham wrote:

The only problem I'm having now, is the same problem I'm having with Word Perfect 8: Printing. I've set up my box to print to a Samba printer elsewhere on the net, and console, KDE apps and Netscape (for instance) all print to it fine, but StarOffice and Word Perfect insist on trying to print to the Letter sized paper bin. It's very annoying. I've changed the configuration to A4 on StarOffice everywhere I could find it, and it just ignores me. Word Perfect doesn't even seem to give me an option.

This may depend on what physical printer you have and how you've set up the WP printer driver (I'll mention SO later). I use a real PS printer, and print from WP straight to lpr using the Apple LaserWriter driver. It just works. HOWEVER -- in WP, from a blank document: - click on the printer - click on "Select" for the current printer - if it's the driver you want, click on "Printer Create/Edit" - click on "Setup" - check out "Sheet Feeder" and the other stuff. If all that is OK, then go back to the document: - click on "File", then "Page Setup" etc. One way or the other, that should see you right. But, as I say, it may depend on your physical printer and on the available drivers in WP. When I was looking at an earlier version of SO, I remember that organising the printer setup was quite an exercise; some of the important details were hidden quite deep down and involved a bit of "quasi-programming". Maybe this has changed with SO5. Anyway, I got SO4 working OK for printing too.

It seems ironic to me that major commercial applications whom you would expect need more than most to have printing capability (ie: office-grade wordprocessors), are the only apps that can't seem to do it properly!

WordPerfect since WP6 has, in my view, lost some of the qualities which made WP-5.1 such a respected product. This is equally true for the Windows version and the UNIX/Linux versions. The printer drivers are definitely not as accessible and configurable as they used to be. And printing "Multinational" (non-ISO-Latin1) characters on WP6/7/8 is an unmitigated and -- at present and quite officially according to word from Corel/WP themselves -- irrecoverable disaster (they print in one font only, which does not quite match even the closest of the fonts used for Latin-1 and may be totally different: -- try printing Turkish "do[1,117]u" in, say Helvetica Oblique where the multinational character [1,117] is a "g" with breve accent). This mess did not exist in 5.1. Good luck, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Date: 10-Feb-99 Time: 20:05:00 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>