From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 27 20:33:37 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 267071065675 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:33:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from smtp-gs.math.arizona.edu (math051.cs.arizona.edu [150.135.82.51]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 187598FC30 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:33:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from Debian-exim by smtp-gs.math.arizona.edu with local-bsmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JUSy2-000832-IQ for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:33:31 -0700 Received: from 71-220-154-220.tcsn.qwest.net ([71.220.154.220] helo=.domain.actdsltmp) by smtp-gs.math.arizona.edu with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JUSxY-00082Z-VJ; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:33:01 -0700 Message-ID: <47C5C8F6.30807@math.arizona.edu> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:32:54 -0700 From: Predrag Punosevac User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070916) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marco Beishuizen References: <1204139113.1033.0@yokozuna.lan> <47C5BA27.2000509@math.arizona.edu> <1204142533.1551.0@yokozuna.lan> In-Reply-To: <1204142533.1551.0@yokozuna.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ACL-Warn: The HELO/EHLO greeting .domain.actdsltmp is invalid X-Outgoing-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) Cc: mbeis@xs4all.nl, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printing in Gnome X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:33:37 -0000 Marco Beishuizen wrote: > On 27-Feb-2008 20:29:43, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > > >> You have to adjust the preferences. By default most applications will >> print to Post Script file. >> You have to put something like lpr or to change default printer. >> >> Try to print a PostScript file from the shell with >> >> $lpr -Pprintername filename.ps >> > > Yes, this works for most applications. Thanks! > Except for OpenOffice, but that's another problem I guess. > > Marco > > I do not use Open Office so I do not know from the top of my head how to fix it. However if you print now from OpenOffice it should print into the PostScript file. That file is printable with lpr. You can make a small script that you will put into the .openoffice or something like that which will execute these commands simultaneously. Look for the solution on the net. You are not the first guy who is trying to print from the OpenOffice running FreeBSD. Cheers, Predrag