Re: a simpler printing question
On Mon 29 Jun 2015 at 21:37:52 -0700, briand@aracnet.com wrote:
> 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.
NEWS.Debian and README.Debian both have a section on GTK applications.
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