Printing headache solved (OpenOffice)

[toyfactory]

This page helped me fix the OpenOffice problem:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/ppd-doc.html

I still have some questions though.  I've found two versions of
psprint.conf, one is somewhere in in /etc and the other is somewhere
below my home directory (or do we call them folders?).  I guess these
are where OpenOffice reads its print settings from, but is the one in
/etc like a template used if there isn't one in the home directory?

I changed the name of the printer in psprint.conf to try and identify it
in the OO Printer Setup but it's still the same as the name in the Gnome
printer config window.  It's as if OO is getting its printer settings
sort of half from one place (psprint.conf) and half from somewhere else
(wherever Gnome keeps its CUPS config).  If I try use the OO Printer
Administration window and click New Printer the "Add a Printer" option
is greyed out (even if I sudo it).

One more thing, my fiddling around only seemed to fix OO after a reboot.
Is there a way to get OO to reload its printer settings without
rebooting?

As you can see, I'm not very clear what's going on here.  It works,
which is good, but I don't really know why, which is going to be a pain
if I have to configure printers again someday.

Nick

On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 16:12:32 +0900, "toyfactory"
<toyfactory at xsmail.com> said:
>
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:18:39 -0500, "m4ng0"
> <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> said:
> >
> > toyfactory Wrote:
> > >
> > > Printing from Gimp
> > >
> > > I load up a picture I want to print and go File, Print... My
> > > printer appears on the Printer Name drop down menu, great.
> > > PostScript Level 2 seems to be the default Printer Model but never
> > > mind, I'll try it. It doesn't work.  The printer prints one page
> > > which says something like "%!PS-Adobe-3. %%BoundingBox Yadda yadda
> > > yadda" and then starts spitting out blank pages until I turn the
> > > printer off.  So I try the Setup Printer... button.  I can't find
> > > my printer there so what should I do?  The print command looks
> > > like this: lp -s -dDeskJet- 5650 -oraw and the PPD file I
> > > downloaded earlier looks like this: /home/nick/HP-DeskJet_5650-
> > > hpijs.ppd
> > >
> >
> > Remove: -oraw from the print command. That should work for The Gimp.
>
> I think that's done the trick.
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> Nick
>
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