Re: Printing woes

frank brierley <[email protected]> Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:10:29 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.print
Message-ID <41070B15.1080704__9368.45813780582$1090980717$gmane$org@brierley.id.au>
Andreas,

You are my new best friend.

We really weren't looking forward to going through the spreadsheet 
research, testing, implementation, and user training all over again. 
Any thoughts on a release time table?

By the way, is gnomeprint a compile in printing mechanism for individual 
applications, or is it to be a gnome feature available to all applications?

Frank

Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:

>>On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 18:45, frank wrote:
>>
>>>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?
> 
> 
> You will be happy to hear that libgnomeprint 2.7.1 will read a non-cups
> generated /etc/printcap files and add the printers defined therein to
> the printer list.
> 
> Andreas