[plug] Linux and Star Office

[Bret Busby]

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On 5/5/99, 12:55:37 PM, John Summerfield <summer at os2.ami.com.au> wrote 
regarding Re: [plug] Linux and Star Office :


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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 :
> >
> >
> > > > 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.

We definitely have ghostscript installed; gs 4.03, I think, it comes 
up with that when we run it. We have done nothing to adjust 
ghostscript, since it was installed as part of installing the OS.

What do we have to do now, to get Star Office to print to the 500C? 
Linux will print to it from the command line, and the print manager 
from control panel, will do an ascii print test okay.

When I tried the postscript print test from the print manager in 
control panel, it didn't print until the next print job, and what it 
did print, stepped across the page, started:
"Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in .putdeviceprops " 
(stepped to next line)
"(1488)op_array(486)0x817b0cc:E"
(end of what was printed).

Or, do we have to buy another printer, to print from Star Office 5? It 
seems a bit drastic (and a bit expensive), if we have to buy a new 
printer to be able to print from it.

Bret Busby