Package: openoffice.org Version: 1.1.2-3 Followup-For: Bug #265741 This bug seems to be an appropriate place to report my issue. I have to say that I agree with Christoph that OOo's printing capabilities are quite lacking and thus cumbersome to use. OOo now detects and allows selecting each of the multiple instances of my printer queues (define in ~/.lpoptions), however that is quite useless because it ignores the options defined for the queue. For example, the office at work has a laser printer and a (color) inkjet. The queue 'color' refers to the inkjet, and the instances 'color/2' sets the options 'number-up=2' and 'page-border=double'. However, printing to 'color/2' resulted in normal 1-up pages. OOo would be much better if it allowed the user to specify the print command instead. Then I could specify any options I want, or even use 'gtklp' instead (as other applications on the system do). The heart of the problem is poor integration with the system due to departing from the UNIX philosophy "do one thing and do it well" and from not following the KISS principle. OOo (on UNIX) should leave the details of getting the data to the printer to a program (lp, gtklp, etc.) dedicated to that task. Currently users must output a PDF, switch to a terminal, print th ePDF with the correct command, then delete the PDF. This is far more cumbersome than any other application on the system, apart from certain versions of firefox. -D -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (80, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.6-2-k7 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 Versions of packages openoffice.org depends on: ii dictionaries-common [openoffi 0.22.30.1 Common utilities for spelling dict ii openoffice.org-bin 1.1.2-3 OpenOffice.org office suite binary ii openoffice.org-debian-files 1.1.2-3+1 Debian specific parts of OpenOffic ii openoffice.org-l10n-en [openo 1.1.2-3 English (US) language package for ii ttf-opensymbol 1.1.2-3 The OpenSymbol TrueType font -- no debconf information -- One OS to rule them all, one OS to find them, One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them, In the Land of Redmond, where the Shadows lie. www: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ jabber: dman@dman13.dyndns.org
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