Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 21:13:30 -0800 From: Frank Jahnke <jahnke@sonatabio.com> To: "Stephane E. Potvin" <sepotvin@videotron.ca> Cc: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A4 paper -- how to change?? Message-ID: <1140585210.628.90.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <43FBCCC8.4050408@videotron.ca> References: <1140450069.29556.34.camel@localhost> <43FA0599.9070200@FreeBSD.org> <1140461180.61480.9.camel@localhost> <43FA148C.7050108@FreeBSD.org> <1140462988.61480.16.camel@localhost> <43FA4CAF.6060305@FreeBSD.org> <1140481208.61480.58.camel@localhost> <43FA7800.1020906@videotron.ca> <1140489038.61480.74.camel@localhost> <43FA8473.1040306@videotron.ca> <1140565761.628.6.camel@localhost> <43FBCCC8.4050408@videotron.ca>
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On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 21:30 -0500, Stephane E. Potvin wrote: > > Did you select the Generic Postscript printer? It's the only one that > will give you the option to use lpr to print. You can also use a custom > location to select a particular printer instead of the default one. > To follow up briefly, I'm still wondering why Gnome cannot print to the CUPS printer without resorting the the work-around suggested here. This is not directed to you, Steph, but rather the readers of this list. It really ought to work using the CUPS printer. One reason I installed CUPS was to use Wine. There are a few Windows applications that I use on BSD that run well under Wine. Printing from Wine requires CUPS. That works fine on the KDE box, which is a back-up machine. But if I have to use that box for the tasks, I may as well boot it into Windows instead (which it also has). The whole point of this exercise was to avoid having to use a second machine. It does not yet work on Gnome. I've yet to diddle with the usual Wine things, but it looks like it requires the CUPS printer, and not lpr. So as it stands, it seems that Wine cannot print on Gnome unless I find a way to work around the work-around. That's just not how it should be, particularly for something seemingly as trivial as a paper size. Surely there must be a way to do this "right." Frank
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