actualy, from what I can find.. it's the Xfree people who had this stupid
printing idea.. what it does is allow code used to render X output, to
also render print output.. so they can re-use rendering code.. which is
usefull, and not usefull. they want a better solution, this was just what
they were able to come up with for a short-term solution to a long-term
.PS output problem.. *shrug* probably never had a postscript person
on-staff before.. now at sun, the office guys can get it right.. if we
prod them enough. :)
Thank You,
Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net)
"Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends."
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Tom Hudak wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 03:51:54PM -0600, Ben Kochie wrote:
> >hey.. I'm playing with openoffice 614, and for the life of me, printing is
> >screwed up.. I found the docs on Xprt, for staroffice, but I'm not finding
> >anything usefull with redhat7
> You have stumbled upon quite possibly the STUPIDEST thing I've ever heard of..
> These guys doing openoffice, believe that in order to support printing, they
> must take it upon themselves to standardize printing across all unices!! So,
> rather than write in some code to convert to PS and use lpr to print (like
> most unices.) they would rather not have you print at all until they have a
> final solution. If you ask me, it's about the dumbest thing I've ever heard
> of, but then again they are almost all former sun employee's, so they may not
> be used to they ways of "users" who like "features" like the ability to
> PRINT! Just my $.02. If you can convert your stuff to PS and print that way, I
> would recommend it.
> >
> >Thank You,
> > Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net)
> >
> > "Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends."
> >
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