Re: a simpler printing question
On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 13:36:52 +0100
Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun 28 Jun 2015 at 13:27:17 -0700, briand@aracnet.com wrote:
>
> > maybe.
> >
> > after my struggling with cups i decided to go old school.
> >
> > it took me 10 minutes with LPRNG to be able to print a postscript
> > file, something i have not yet been able to do with cups (which i
> > might point out is using the exact same drivers).
> >
> > so now the question is: how do i make my applications aware of the
> > lprng printer ?
> >
> > applications would be : mozilla, claws-mail, libre office, etc...
>
> For any installed package it is rarely a waste of time and effort to
> read its documentation in /usr/shsre/doc.
>
>
and it's there i learned how to construct my printcap file.
however it has nothing about making the printer available to the apps.
i searched the web again, and discovered there are things like kprinter which will work.
now to figure out which of them will actually work.
kprint(er) is out because i don't want to install all of kde to get it.
regardless i'm on the write track.
the really interesting tidbit. libre prints to something called the "default printer". now that i have a default printer, it works just fine ...
Brian
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