Re: Re: a simpler printing question

2016-05-15 Thread Szász Gergely
Hi! Try: gtk-print-backends = file,lpr Without double-qoutes! This is works for me in /etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini ... Gergely

Re: a simpler printing question

2015-07-02 Thread briand
On Thu, 2 Jul 2015 10:51:31 +0100 Brian wrote: > > Siard's timely contribution seems to give you all that you want from > lprng. Are you thinking of filing a wishlist bug against its documention > to have this gtk3 advice included alongside what is there for gtk2? > > Great suggestion- done.

Re: a simpler printing question

2015-07-02 Thread Brian
On Wed 01 Jul 2015 at 17:40:25 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jul 2015 23:23:36 +0200 > Siard wrote: > > > [Settings] > > gtk-print-backends = file,lpr > > Thank you so much ! > > That was the problem. > > evinces now prints to lpr. > > :-) Splendid. Siard's timely contributi

Re: a simpler printing question

2015-07-01 Thread briand
On Wed, 1 Jul 2015 23:23:36 +0200 Siard wrote: > [Settings] > gtk-print-backends = file,lpr Thank you so much ! That was the problem. evinces now prints to lpr. :-) Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: a simpler printing question

2015-07-01 Thread Siard
bri...@aracnet.com: > Siard: > > The GTK3 equivalent for ~/.gtkrc-2.0 is > > ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini. > > > > It should contain this line: > > [Settings] > > and your settings below it. > > interesting: > > [Settings] > gtk-print-backends = "file,lpr" > > causes evince to display no prin

Re: a simpler printing question

2015-07-01 Thread briand
On Wed, 1 Jul 2015 22:16:20 +0200 Siard wrote: > bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > Brian wrote: > > > I think evince uses gtk-3.0. > > > > unclear at this time. i copied the gtkrc file into the 3.0 director, > > and i did see the print choices in evince change. but now they've > > changed back. >

Re: a simpler printing question

2015-07-01 Thread Siard
bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > Brian wrote: > > I think evince uses gtk-3.0. > > unclear at this time. i copied the gtkrc file into the 3.0 director, > and i did see the print choices in evince change. but now they've > changed back. > > i straced it, and it's definitely not trying to open the >

Re: a simpler printing question

2015-07-01 Thread briand
On Wed, 1 Jul 2015 19:21:36 +0100 Brian wrote: > > You don't have best of experiences with printing, do you? true. CUPS is, theoretically, a wonderful thing, as long as CUPS has a native driver for your printer. i believe that my previous brother (HL-1440) did, not that i didn't have troubl

Re: a simpler printing question

2015-07-01 Thread Brian
On Wed 01 Jul 2015 at 11:10:29 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jul 2015 18:27:52 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > > You are on the right track but there is a little way to go. Take the > > numerical part of that file, multiply it by 4, add 1 and get the square > > root of the result to one

Re: a simpler printing question

2015-07-01 Thread briand
On Wed, 1 Jul 2015 18:27:52 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Wed 01 Jul 2015 at 08:47:43 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > On Wed, 1 Jul 2015 09:44:32 +0100 Brian wrote: > > > > > Iceweasel is a GTK application. > > > > iceweasel and claws-mail seem to be linked against gtk-2.0 if you look > > at

Re: a simpler printing question

2015-07-01 Thread Brian
On Wed 01 Jul 2015 at 08:47:43 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jul 2015 09:44:32 +0100 Brian wrote: > > > Iceweasel is a GTK application. > > iceweasel and claws-mail seem to be linked against gtk-2.0 if you look > at the dependencies page. I wonder if apps linked against 3.0 will

Re: a simpler printing question

2015-07-01 Thread briand
On Wed, 1 Jul 2015 09:44:32 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Tue 30 Jun 2015 at 21:23:23 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 13:00:34 +0100 > > Brian wrote: > > > > > NEWS.Debian and README.Debian both have a section on GTK applications. > > > > lol. you surely know how many NE

Re: a simpler printing question

2015-07-01 Thread Brian
On Tue 30 Jun 2015 at 21:23:23 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 13:00:34 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > > NEWS.Debian and README.Debian both have a section on GTK applications. > > lol. you surely know how many NEWS.Debian files there are... You've visited /usr/share/doc/lprng

Re: a simpler printing question

2015-06-30 Thread briand
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 13:00:34 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Mon 29 Jun 2015 at 21:37:52 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 13:36:52 +0100 > > Brian wrote: > > > > > On Sun 28 Jun 2015 at 13:27:17 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > > > > > maybe. > > > > > > > > after my

Re: a simpler printing question

2015-06-30 Thread briand
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 11:12:51 +0200 albcares wrote: > good morning. > Mr. Briand, did you mean that it has been enough setting your printer as > "default" to make LibreOffice use it? > sorry 4 my wretch english. > A.C. > well i constructed a printcap and tested the set-up using lpr, and that w

Re: a simpler printing question

2015-06-30 Thread Brian
On Mon 29 Jun 2015 at 21:37:52 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 13:36:52 +0100 > Brian 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

Re: a simpler printing question

2015-06-30 Thread albcares
2015-06-30 6:37 GMT+02:00 : > On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 13:36:52 +0100 > Brian 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 p

Re: a simpler printing question

2015-06-29 Thread briand
On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 13:36:52 +0100 Brian 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

Re: a simpler printing question

2015-06-29 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/29/2015 08:36 AM, Brian 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 (whi

Re: a simpler printing question

2015-06-29 Thread Brian
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 us

a simpler printing question

2015-06-28 Thread briand
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 applic

Re: firefox printing: question about paper size

2006-05-25 Thread Tom Allison
This doesn't work. There's a HUGE problem with the firefox install on Debian since the last week. I have a gadzillion plus options for paper sizes and even when I select the right one from the list I STILL get a message that there is no supported paper size selected. I'm submitted this as a pre

Re: firefox printing: question about paper size

2006-05-17 Thread Wulfy
Paul E Condon wrote: On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 05:45:57PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 11:05:43AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I run firefox under Sarge, using Debian repository version of firefox Recent posts on this list indicate that there is a (non-functionin

Re: firefox printing: question about paper size

2006-05-17 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 05:45:57PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 11:05:43AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I run firefox under Sarge, using Debian repository version of firefox > > Recent posts on this list indicate that there is a (non-functioning) > > way to indicate

Re: firefox printing: question about paper size

2006-05-17 Thread hendrik
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 11:05:43AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I run firefox under Sarge, using Debian repository version of firefox > Recent posts on this list indicate that there is a (non-functioning) > way to indicate paper size for printing in firefox. I can't find any > such controls in the

firefox printing: question about paper size

2006-05-17 Thread Paul E Condon
I run firefox under Sarge, using Debian repository version of firefox Recent posts on this list indicate that there is a (non-functioning) way to indicate paper size for printing in firefox. I can't find any such controls in the firefox that I have running here. Where are they? Is it implemented by

Newbie Printing Question

2002-09-07 Thread Michael Pereira
Hi everyone, I just installed debian (woody) and would like to know how to set up printing on my box. I have an Epson Stylus Color 600 printer, what are the steps to configure my box to print. Thx Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Printing question

2002-03-03 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 03:58, Alan & Kerry Shrimpton wrote: > Hi, > > I know most people have their Linux box connected to the net. I have my > windows machine. > > I know most people probably have their printers connected to their Linux > machine. I have it connected to my windows machine. > >

Re: Printing question

2002-03-01 Thread Angus D Madden
Alan & Kerry Shrimpton, Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:58:46PM +1300: > Hi, > > I know most people have their Linux box connected to the net. I have my > windows machine. > > I know most people probably have their printers connected to their Linux > machine. I have it connected to my windows machine.

Re: Printing question - samba stuff

2002-03-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya > Alan & Kerry Shrimpton([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Hi, > > > > I know most people have their Linux box connected to the net. I have my > > windows machine. > > > > I know most people probably have their printers connected to their Linux > > machine. I have it conn

Re: Printing question

2002-03-01 Thread dman
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:58:46PM +1300, Alan & Kerry Shrimpton wrote: | Hi, | | I know most people have their Linux box connected to the net. I have my | windows machine. | | I know most people probably have their printers connected to their Linux | machine. I have it connected to my windows

Re: Printing question

2002-03-01 Thread Wayne Topa
Alan & Kerry Shrimpton([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi, > > I know most people have their Linux box connected to the net. I have my > windows machine. > > I know most people probably have their printers connected to their Linux > machine. I have it connected to my windows mach

Re: Printing question

2002-03-01 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Alan & Kerry Shrimpton wrote: > Hi, > > I know most people have their Linux box connected to the net. I have my > windows machine. > > I know most people probably have their printers connected to their Linux > machine. I have it connected to my windows machine. > > Serio

Printing question

2002-03-01 Thread Alan & Kerry Shrimpton
Hi, I know most people have their Linux box connected to the net. I have my windows machine. I know most people probably have their printers connected to their Linux machine. I have it connected to my windows machine. Seriously, aren't newbies like myself trying to find an alternative to windo

Re: Printing Question

2001-07-19 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello all, > > Is it possible to print from Linux on a printer attached to a Windows > machine? > How could i print on this printer? > Any suggestions? > > Thanks! It is a trivial task to set up CUPS to use smb (Samba) for such printing to it. Rea

Re: Printing Question

2001-07-19 Thread John Galt
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hello all, > >Is it possible to print from Linux on a printer attached to a Windows >machine? >How could i print on this printer? >Any suggestions? Samba. Make sure that the windoze printer is shared, btw... >Thanks! > >Regards, >Matthias > > -- T

Printing Question

2001-07-19 Thread M . PITZL
Hello all, Is it possible to print from Linux on a printer attached to a Windows machine? How could i print on this printer? Any suggestions? Thanks! Regards, Matthias -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net GMX Tipp: Machen Sie Ihr Hobby zu Geld bei unserem Part

Re: Printing Question

2001-07-03 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 07/02/01 23:11:38 -0700, Norbert Froese wrote: > Thank you so much for CCing this to the list. You're welcome. I'd figured there'd be lurkers interested. I can't be the only one with the same problem (can I?). > I have been completely baffled as to why I could not get so much as a sound > ou

Re: Printing Question

2001-07-03 Thread Norbert Froese
> I CCd this to the debian-user list in order to preserve the thread. > > > I'm able to print text and pdf files, but I'm having some problems > with ps. I'll look into that tomorrow. At least I know I'm not going > crazy. > Thank you so much for CCing this to the list. I have been completely baf

Re: Printing Question

2001-07-02 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi Larry, I CCd this to the debian-user list in order to preserve the thread. On 07/02/01 23:16:38 -0500, Lance Simmons wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 08:35:35PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > > > My parallel port is still being detected at boot, here's the excerpt > > from dmesg: > > > > parp

Re: Printing Question

2001-07-02 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all, again: This is starting to drive me crazy. I decided to give CUPS a spin, since I haven't been able to get plain text files to print with the lpd/magicfilter combo. Anyway, before installing CUPS (maybe sooner, but I have tried to print anything since playing with this yesterday), I was ab

Re: Printing Question

2001-07-01 Thread Mark Wagnon
Thanks for the response! On 07/01/01 11:05:45 +0800, Lamer wrote: > "install progeny, it does all" I've had it installed once, but I didn't like it. I may not be that bright of a guy, but I still like to look under the hood and get my hands dirty. > and > > "then upgrade to woody" Well, that'

Re: Printing Question

2001-06-30 Thread Lamer
quot;Mark Wagnon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 10:55 AM Subject: Printing Question > Hi all? > > I'm still battling with this. I have lpd, magicfilter, et al, > installed. I'm able to print from various programs without problems, > however

Printing Question

2001-06-30 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all? I'm still battling with this. I have lpd, magicfilter, et al, installed. I'm able to print from various programs without problems, however, when I print plain ascii text, the printer prints just fine, but I need to manually eject the page. I've tried to set my printcap up to send a form fe

Re: Samba printing question

2000-06-08 Thread Cory Snavely
> I have set up samba so my wife can print from Windows 95 to the printer > on my Linux box (dj520 configured with magicfilter). It prints fine, > but after the page ejects, a second page is printed with: > > %%[ Page: 1 ]%% >%%[ LastPage ]%% > > I suppose this is some PostScript

Re: Samba printing question

2000-06-03 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 07:41:07PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 10:57:52AM +1200, C. Falconer wrote: > > Specifically about your question, I don't know but I have a DJ 850 here > > shared via samba (off the linux machine) and my win9x boxes have the HP > > driver for th

Re: Samba printing question

2000-06-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
have set up printcap anyway, but there are other ways to do it. Therefore I picked a postscript driver. The HP drivers I have for the 520 predate Windows 95. > > -- > From: Bob Nielsen[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, 4 June 2000 10:50 AM > To: debian

RE: Samba printing question

2000-06-03 Thread C. Falconer
plied drivers -- From: Bob Nielsen[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 4 June 2000 10:50 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:Samba printing question I have set up samba so my wife can print from Windows 95 to the printer on my Linux box (dj520 configured

Samba printing question

2000-06-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
I have set up samba so my wife can print from Windows 95 to the printer on my Linux box (dj520 configured with magicfilter). It prints fine, but after the page ejects, a second page is printed with: %%[ Page: 1 ]%% %%[ LastPage ]%% I suppose this is some PostScript code, probably

re:PS printing question

1999-08-07 Thread Johan Dewaele
Referring to earlier mail about PS printing problem. got it replaced gs with gs-aladdin replaced apsfilter with magicfilter everything ok ! :) Thanks for the help Johan Dewaele

Re: PS printing question

1999-08-04 Thread Mark Wagnon
Johan Dewaele wrote: > [snip] > * When trying to print files from gv or gimp or acroread etc, I get or > nothing or on the printer : > > Error: /undefined in FFF > Operand stack: > Execution st

PS printing question

1999-08-04 Thread Johan Dewaele
Hello, Being new to Linux , I've got problems printing PS files on a HP Deskjet 400 (color + bw) On my system : Debian GNU Linux slink v2.1 LPRng 3.5.2-1.3 apsfilter 4.9.7-5 gv 3.5.8 gs 5.10 As

Re: Printing question ...

1996-12-20 Thread Martin Konold
On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote: > Thanks to everyone who replied. I had the "burst" page > suppressed with the :sh: boolean, and even tried the -h option to > the lpr command, but the boolean I was looking for isn't > implemented on linux. That doesn't matter because the problem i

Another (different) printing question

1996-12-20 Thread James W. Lynch
I used to run magic filter on an older Debian system and it worked fine. I installed 1.1 a few months back and re-installed the magicfilter and now I have the stair-step problem. I have read the HOWTO and it said to run a filter, and described one to fix that problem, but with magicfilter pointin

Re: Printing question ...

1996-12-20 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, Martin Konold wrote: > On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote: > > > Does anybody know how to prevent a banner page from being > > printed? > > Try inserting ':sh:' in you /etc/printcap. This entry means 'suppress > header' Thanks to everyone who replied. I had th

Re: Printing question ...

1996-12-20 Thread Martin Konold
On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote: > Does anybody know how to prevent a banner page from being > printed? Try inserting ':sh:' in you /etc/printcap. This entry means 'suppress header' Yours, -- martin // Martin Konold, Muenzgasse 7, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany // // Email: [EMAIL P

Printing question ...

1996-12-20 Thread Richard G. Roberto
Does anybody know how to prevent a banner page from being printed? I'm printing to an HP4M and after each print job a banner page gets printed (it looks like the contents of the cf file). There used to be a "no banner" switch for printcap, but I didn't see one in the Linux man page. Any ideas?