Re: Envelope printing followup

James Cloos wrote:

>>>>>>"tj" == tj <999alfred@comcast.net> writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>
>tj> Well, by using the CUPS printer management I set the paper to
>tj> envelope #10 and got it to print correctly, center feed as
>tj> reference and noe chop off the return address.
>
>tj> Why cann't it be done correctly using only abiword and not have to
>tj> use CUPS via a browser? What if you are not allowed printer
>tj> management access under CUPS?
>
>If that worked then what you really need is to configure abiword to
>print via a gui command rather than via lpr(1) or lp(1).
>
>In Abi's print dialog, set Location to Custom and specify a spooling
>command that uses a gui.
>
>Some of the choices are xpp, gtklp, qtcups and kprinter. hey should
>all be available in any of the popular linux distributions and in the
>ports trees in the BSDs. On OSX Apple probably provides an app that
>does the same.
>
>When the spooler app runs it queries cups and offers all of the
>choices on a per-job basis that you can set via the browser. They
>generally also let you specify instances and you default options for a
>given printer. All of that is saved to your ~/.lpoptions file.
>
>-JimC
>
>
Thank you for this information. I will definatly followup on your
sugestions.

tj

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Received on Wed Jun 8 15:26:20 2005