On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 13:36:52 +0100 Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun 28 Jun 2015 at 13:27:17 -0700, bri...@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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150629213752.5c66f...@cedar.deldotd.com
