On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 16:59, frank brierley wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question and a suggestion > > I am running gnome 2.4.1 on a freebsd 4.9 box using lpr/lpd and > ghostscript to print. Printing goes to a windows XP lpd print server > and to a redhat 9 / cups lpd print server. the dialog works much better if you are using cups rather than lpr/lpd, but odf course it should work with both > > Both these print servers require the '-l' option to be provided to the > lpr command. This instruction asks windows not to perform any > formatting on the print job. The cups implementation of lpd appears > incomplete or non compliant and will print blank pages without the '-l' > option. > > The problem is that at each print job (using gnomeprint) I have to > select custom from the location drop down box and enter 'lpr -l'. From > the printer tab, the settings drop down has a disabled 'add new > settings' option and a disabled 'configure' button. Which application are you using? The application should save those settings and reapply them before showing the dialog. > > To print to the non default lpr printer (configured in the printcap > file) I have to enter the printer name in the location dropdown by > selecting custom, just as above > > Question: > Is there a way of adding different configurations for the different > printers available to my system? Maybe a config file some where. well, as indicated above, for cups the printers would appear directly in the menu, this should be implemented for other printer spoolers... > > Suggestion: > It's a good idea to present a uniform print dialogue and a number of > applications use this tool, an improvement might be to allow the user to > close the print preview pane without closing the print dialogue (closing > the print dialogue means losing all the entered page orentations, > margins, and selected printer configuration) The choice to close the print dialog lies with the application. Yesterday I changed gnumeric (the development version) to do just what you are requesting. Andreas -- Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow Dept. of Mathematical & Computing Sciences Concordia University College of Alberta
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