On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 07:40:19PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > does anybody here have any xprint config experience? My old > > workstation is getting a bit bloated, xprint is up the creek and I > > can't print to file / PS / PDF. > > > > I can't see anything visibly wrong with the configuration. I tried > > deinstalling and reinstalling, but that didn't help. xprint works > > fine on my new machine where I just installed etch, but on this box > > it is kaputt. > > I've been fiddling with xprint just to figure out what the heck it is. > Yeah, yeah, an X print server. What's that? I already have lprng, > printing appears to work in everything I've tried it in, but that was > true before I installed xprint. So, what do I need xprint for? It's > a mystery. > > Have you read the stuff in /usr/share/doc/xprint and xprint-common > and xprint-utils? Have you: > > export XPSERVERLIST=`/etc/init.d/xprint get_xpserverlist` > > in your startup shell config? It also suggests: > > export LPDEST=lp # <-- edit to taste. > > may be useful, but I haven't needed it. > > The things I've seen so far say it help mozilla browsers print. Is > that all? How to get OOo to use it? Dunno. It doesn't appear to > need it.
so far as I can tell, its generally caused more problems than its solved. For example, it (used to, anyway, I purged it a while ago) caused extra printers to show up in mozilla printer dialogs but the printers that it provided were not useful (generally too large font sizes etc). I purged it maybe a year ago and haven't missed it since. A
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