[plug] Linux and Star Office

[John Summerfield]

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> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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> On 5/5/99, 11:35:00 AM, John Summerfield <summer at os2.ami.com.au> wrote 
> regarding Re: [plug] Linux and Star Office :
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> > > Bret Busby wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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> > > > On 5/4/99, 9:27:09 PM, russ <russ at powerstech.com> wrote regarding Re:
> > > > [plug] Linux and Star Office:
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> > > > What I would like to know, now, apart from everything else, is whether
> > > > it will print on anything other than postscript printers, and, if so,
> > > > how do we get it to so do?
> > > >
> > > > We have an HP DeskJet 500C, that I have just got going, by fixing the
> > > > cartridge, and while we can print to it using the RH 5.2 ascii test
> > > > page, and from the Linux command line, Star Office appears to allow
> > > > only postscript printing; ie, printing to postscript printers. In
> > > > going to the printer setup in Star Office, the only printer drivers
> > > > that are available, are all postscript printer drivers.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I have a Canon bjc4000 and I haven't had any problems printing to it
> > > (ok, it took me a while to figure out that my lpt port had been turned
> > > off in the bios for windoze). I've never even used the printer setup.
> > > Is the printer in your /etc/printcap file? I'm a linux novice so
> > > that's about as much as I know about printing. ;-)
> 
> > It's also important to install Ghostscript;-)
> 
> The deskjet is in the /etc/printcap file.
> 
> I am sure that ghostscript was installed, with all the other packages, 
> when Linux was installed.

Perhaps it was. Everyone should install it. It is a postscript 
interpreter: from postcript input it creates whatever is required for your 
printer.


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> I am using fvwm2, which I think is fvwm95, as the windows GUI, and in 
> the Start menu, there is not an option for applications. If I go to 
> Programs->Graphics->Viewers, I can see an entry for ghostview.

ghostview is differenet (and replaced with gv which is better).

> Because there is not an option for Applications in the Start menu, to 
> run Star Office, I have to do it from the command line, in the nxterm 
> window.
> 
> If ghostscript is necessary, to print from Star Office, would I be 
> able to print directly from Star Office, or, would I need to open a 
> Star Office file, with ghostscript, and print from within ghostscript?

I don't use SO, but I print from netscape which creates postscript. I've 
set up a printer definition with control-panel/print-tool then edited the 
postscript.cfg it creates (which is broken) and then I can print on my 
BJC4200.

We also use WordPerfect, but that has a driver for the BJC4200.



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