Re: [aclug-L] Star Office is.......BAD!

[phrostie <phrostie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

glad to help.
sometimes i think i'm in my own little world
with no way to contribute to the group.

phrostie

Curtis Hawthorne wrote:

Thanks!  It works great now!

--- phrostie <phrostie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ok found it!
> this assumes that gs supports your printer.
> start wp8
> file -> print(F5)
> (top right) select
> (bottom right) printer create/edit
> (top right)    add
> (page down to just past the panasonics) click on
> Passthru PostScript
> click ok
> it asks for a driver i think i took the default,
> passpost.prs.
>
> flash shabang shazam
>
> you're not done yet.
>
> (right hand side) setup
> (bottom right) destination
> (list) lp
> click ok
> ok
>
> now celebrate!
>
> enjoy
>
>
>
> Curtis Hawthorne wrote:
>
> > Could you explain in a little bit more detail how
> to
> > do that?  My printer (Canon BJC-1000) isn't
> supported
> > in wordperfect either, and I would like to get it
> to
> > work.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > --- phrostie <phrostie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > one of the printer options for xwp8 is a
> "poststript
> > > transfer" or something like that.
> > > all it does is to hand off the out put to gs
> instead
> > > of printing it itself.
> > > it is slower than a direct filter but it works
> as
> > > long as gs supports your printer.
> > >
> > > phrostie
> > >
> > >
> > > Jonathan Hall wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, David Carmichael wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >       And WordPerfect is a smaller download,
> a
> > > faster program, and less of a
> > > > >       resource hog.
> > > > >
> > > > >       Of course WP for Linux doesn't do
> > > spreadsheets and all the other fancy
> > > > >       things that StarOffice does--but I
> don't
> > > need those things anyway.
> > > > >
> > > > > Well if you could get my Canon BJC4400 (or
> for
> > > that much most any Color
> > > > > Canon printer to work with X-WP8 I know many
> > > users would love to know
> > > > > how....  My wife for one!!
> > > >
> > > > If ghostscript supports a BJC4400, then WP8
> does.
> > > >
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and danced the skies on LINUX silvered wings.
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