Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:07:00 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: duplex printing with OOo. Message-ID: <20090819220700.GA92618@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20090819202834.50101046.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20090819063810.GA15231@thought.org> <20090819072307.a5f2a541.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20090819180519.GA86402@thought.org> <20090819202834.50101046.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:28:34PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:05:19 -0700, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote: > > > > Well, after umch mucking around, the Brother 5250DN works with > > OO and prints in Duplex only if I turn the dialog to OFF where is > > say > > > > Duplex __ [arrows] > > Do I understand this correctly? Duplex works in OO when duplex > is set to OFF = no duplex? Oh joy of modern software! that should have been:: Duplex _OFF_ [arrows] > > This reminds me to a POS program with a very creative > error handling, it went like this: > > switch error > case 1: "printer not connected"; > case 2: "scanner not connected"; > case 4: "keyboard not connected"; > case 8: "some other error"; > ... > default: "file not found"; (without mentioning which file) LMOA! man, that's rich... sounds like some seriously lazy hacking to me... . > > Maybe OO should add something like "In order to activate a > feature, deactivate it". :-) > i'm actually starting a ~/.helpOOo file with tricks and tips about the program, mostly swriter. there are some pretty sharp folks over on oooforum.org. luckily:_) > > > > Now that that's resolved, I can change the printer web page > > config back to Simplex and everything will be fine. The King > > will be in his heaven; God will be in his Counting_House, &c. > > I hope both are well, "up and running". :-) > > By the way, long time that I saw someone write "&c.". > not sure if easier to type "etc." or "&c", given the shift-7 == '&' ... but it's different. gary > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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