retitle 250981 openoffice.org: Cannot print to CUPS queue with multiple instances clone 250981 -1 retitle -1 openoffice.org: Cannot add new printer queues in spadmin tags -1 + confirmed thanks
On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 08:48, Iacopo Spalletti wrote: > Update: i needed to delete any printer istance except default one to make > oo.o > print in cups server Ah, thanks! That is very useful. I had already started looking at this but I could not find out why things were not working for you. With this imformation I hope to be able to go and get this fixed upstream. > > > Plus i can't install other printers via spadmin, as the are lost on > > > closing spadmin interface. This is a separate bug. Cloning the bugreport. I was able to confirm this problem on my system. > > > I seems a rather critical bug, to me... There are workarounds available (print to ps, etc.), so I'm leaving it as important. > > > As I understand this is normal behaviour: spadmin should no longer be > > used (a precious gift!). spadmin is still needed for non CUPS systems and custom printer queues, so it will not go away immediately. Other packagers which only support CUPS (Ximian, Red Hat etc) have removed spadmin completely from their packages. I don't have that luxury while we still have lpr and lprnq systems around. > > The new printing system (it is already the one that will be officially > > in OOo 2.0) uses natively CUPS, which is a major step forward in my pov. Yes, and mine too. That's why I put a lot of effort into backporting the CUPS support. > Given that oo.o does not depends on cups it would be nice continue supporting > other (and more widely deployed) printing services... > And surely non dumping them in a revision The CUPS support is supposed to be in addition to the existing lpr and manual queue creation mechanism. Chris
