OOo doesn't see KDE printers

[Roshan Mansinghani]

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.



On 8/14/06, Ylan Segal <ylan.segal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Background: I have a standard Ubuntu 6.06 installation to which I later
> added kubuntu-desktop.
>
> Problem: When trying to print from OpenOffice.org, I only see one
> printer (an HP printer, earlier installed in gnome) but none of the
> other KDE printers (print to pdf, send fax, etc). I can see the printers
> in the KDE configuration, but OOo doesn't see them. Anyone know how to
> fix this?
>
> Note: The same thing happens from firefox.
>
> Thanks,
>
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> Ylan
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