[plug] Printing from OOo

[shayne at guild.murdoch.edu.au]

If you can print from KDE, go to printer admin,
and add a printer called "Kde printer"
Replace the lp bit with;-

kprinter --stdin

And that should be it. Even brings up the lovely KDE dialogue on printout.




Quoting Chris Caston <caston at iinet.net.au>:

> Greetings,
> 
> I can't seem to figure how to print from OpenOffice.org.
> 
> I can print from nearly every other app. Basically I'm using Woody
> with
> KDE 2.2.2 and CUPS.
> 
> When I print from other apps select an option along the lines of print
> using the following command and I enter "qtcups" which brings up the
> nice printing interface that look surprisingly like it does on
> Windows.
> 
> Only on OpenOffice I don't have that option. You can select two
> different printers <lp> or Generic Printer and neither of them work.
> 
> I also was never able to setup the printer manager option in KDE
> control
> center correctly (maybe this is what I'm missing)
> 
> >From what I saw in Knoppix, KDE 3 seems to have better support for
> cups.
> 
> Let me know if you can help.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris
> 
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