openoffice won't keep my printersettings

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marcus · Post by **marcus** » Sat Aug 24, 2002 1:20 am

I followed the new gentoo printing guide and succesfully installed cups and a driver for my printer (HP LaserJet 4P). When I try to install the printer running ./spadmin in ~/OpenOffice.org1.0/program/ it all seems to work out fine. But when I close spadmin and enter it again it has lost the settings. Why's that? I tried both as root and "myself".

Post by **pjp** » Sun Aug 25, 2002 6:46 pm

Moved from Hardware to Desktop Environments. Appears to be an OpenOffice issue.

Decibels · Post by **Decibels** » Fri Sep 20, 2002 1:45 pm

Yes, I have had some weird problems between Cups and OpenOffice also.
1) First install, setup for User after installing, couldn't get printer to work for user.
2) Reinstalled and did same thing, but this time setup printer first and then worked for user.
3) Then one day after it wouldn't print an envelope right, would only print the addressee but not the
return address. Tried numerous times, tried test pages,.... Got tired of tried and just took OpenOffice
off the compter.
Then several days later (after shuting the system down several times, I usually don't leave it on all the
time.) All of a sudden, with out warning, the printer just started printing pages out. It was all the pages
and envelopes I had tried to do several days earlier. And they were all correct and complete.
I had already checked the spool and they weren't in there. Now all of a sudden they appeared and printed
out. Don't know???

Printer works fine for everything else. Going to try KOffice for awhile instead. Don't really like the way
most programs have a good setup for the printer and OpenOffice kinda sucks for the printer setup.

cerb · Post by **cerb** » Fri Jan 17, 2003 10:50 am

i have had no problems with printing from openoffice in general - but:

i can't change the orientation of a printout. that is, when i have a wide spreadsheet and want to print it landscape, it still prints portrait ... anyone with a solution to this?

ah, printing with cups on a laserjet4

any other programs print fine, except acrobat reader (printer says it processes the job, but then stops - no error) maybe someone also knows an answer to that issue, too.

regards,
-c

lain iwakura · Post by **lain iwakura** » Fri Jan 17, 2003 11:17 am

hmm, try running spadmin in the openoffice dir as root to set up the printer.

i'm using the openoffice-bin ebuild, btw.

cerb · Post by **cerb** » Fri Jan 17, 2003 12:11 pm

thank you - that wasn't the problem. actually i had to adjust the page-layout.