Printing woes

"frank" <[email protected]> Wed, 21 Jul 2004 08:45:03 +1000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnome.print
Message-ID	<200407202245.i6KMj99N006639__43683.433722663$1090363718$gmane$org@chloe.brierley.id.au>

Hi,

 

It's been 6 months since the first of these bug reports was filed (Bug
132732: lpd spools not showing and Bug, and 138941: gnome-print could detect
all local printers automatically with etc/printcap) and I've been receiving
almost daily complaints from my users regarding the inability of the print
mechanism to handle lpd printers.  Sadly, questions to gnome-print-list
receive no response.

 

I have found gnumeric to be a capable spreadsheet and we have invested
considerable time in adapting excel spreadsheets to suit (taking out the
macros).  It seems a shame to have to discard such a sound application for a
reason as simple as problematic printing, but we are an engineering firm and
have no capacity for programming.  We will begin testing alternate
spreadsheets directly and will begin the transition from gnumeric shortly.

 

It is inconceivable that the anticipated Microsoft Windows version of
gnumeric will demand a CUPS installation, so why the insistence for CUPS on
Unix platforms?

 

Frank

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