OOo doesn't see KDE printers

[Ylan Segal]

Roshan Mansinghani wrote:
> I just added a test printer in KDE, and that showed up in firefox.  I
> don't know if those "special printers" can show up in gtk print dialogs
> (such as those in firefox and OO) because they seem to be KDE specific. 
> 
> From what I understand, there is an underlying printer program called
> cups that both KDE and Gnome access for printing to "real" printers. 
> However, the feature of KDE to do things like "print to pdf" and "send
> fax" are not using the underlying cups system but rather running
> programs.  Hence, when you add a "real" printer to KDE, KDE knows to
> update the cups configuration which gtk programs like firefox and OO
> look to as well.  But, the special "pseudo" printers that KDE has are
> not something that it runs through CUPS; thus, they will not show up in
> OO or firefox. 

Hmm, that kind of sucks, especially for OOo. Firefox, not so much since
I can open the same web page to print in Konqueror (most of the time).

I don't send faxes that often, so I guess that going from OOo to PDF and
then from kpdf to "send to fax" is not that much trouble.

-- 
Ylan, who is thinking of giving Konqueror another try as a browser,
because its the more kde-ish thing to do