[NTLUG:Discuss] Printing problem in OpenOffice 1.0.1

[Wayne Dahl]

Ok, this is kinda weird.  I have never had any trouble printing from
anything on this machine before, but yesterday, as I was trying to get
to the doctors office, I attempted to print a letter I had written in OO
and got nothing at all.  It didn't appear the printer was getting
anything.  I didn't have time to try to find a log file on it at the
time, but when I try to print it, this is what I find in
/var/spool/lpd/Lexmark-Z52/status.pr

IF filter 'mf_wrapper' filter msg - '<</Yellow 1.000000>>setpagedevice'
at 2003-07-03-11:40:02.488 ## A=Wayne-KDE at crtntx1-ar6-4-64-084-065+704
number=704 process=1747
IF filter 'mf_wrapper' filter msg - 'gs  PID pid2=1767' at
2003-07-03-11:40:02.498 ## A=Wayne-KDE at crtntx1-ar6-4-64-084-065+704
number=704 process=1747
IF filter 'mf_wrapper' filter msg - 'foomatic-gswrapper: gs '-dSAFER'
'-dNOPAUSE' '-dBATCH' '-sDEVICE=stp' '-sModel=lexmark-z52'
'-sOutputFile=/dev/fd/3' '/dev/fd/0' 3>&1 1>&2' at
2003-07-03-11:40:02.547 ## A=Wayne-KDE at crtntx1-ar6-4-64-084-065+704
number=704 process=1747
IF filter 'mf_wrapper' filter msg - 'GNU Ghostscript 7.05 (2002-04-22)'
at 2003-07-03-11:40:02.708 ## A=Wayne-KDE at crtntx1-ar6-4-64-084-065+704
number=704 process=1747
IF filter 'mf_wrapper' filter msg - 'Copyright (C) 2002 artofcode LLC,
Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.' at 2003-07-03-11:40:02.708 ##
A=Wayne-KDE at crtntx1-ar6-4-64-084-065+704 number=704 process=1747
IF filter 'mf_wrapper' filter msg - 'This software comes with NO
WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.' at 2003-07-03-11:40:02.709
## A=Wayne-KDE at crtntx1-ar6-4-64-084-065+704 number=704 process=1747
IF filter 'mf_wrapper' filter msg - 'Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font
from /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n021003l.pfb... 2411660 1051051
1642520 347466 0 done.' at 2003-07-03-11:40:03.711 ##
A=Wayne-KDE at crtntx1-ar6-4-64-084-065+704 number=704 process=1747
IF filter 'mf_wrapper' filter msg - 'Loading NimbusSanL-Regu font from
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019003l.pfb... 2786620 1376969 1662616
358654 0 done.' at 2003-07-03-11:40:04.307 ##
A=Wayne-KDE at crtntx1-ar6-4-64-084-065+704 number=704 process=1747
IF filter 'mf_wrapper' filter msg - 'Using NimbusSansL-Regu font for
NimbusSanL-Regu.' at 2003-07-03-11:40:04.308 ##
A=Wayne-KDE at crtntx1-ar6-4-64-084-065+704 number=704 process=1747
IF filter 'mf_wrapper' filter msg - 'Legal is not a valid parameter of
type page size' at 2003-07-03-11:40:05.717 ##
A=Wayne-KDE at crtntx1-ar6-4-64-084-065+704 number=704 process=1747

There's a lot more to the status.pr file, but I hope this will be
sufficient.  This is a simple text file, saved as Work_letter.sxw in the
OO format.  What's worse is, I can pull up a resume in OO that was done
on Micky$oft Word and it will print just fine.  

So, the weird thing is, M$ files will print, I've created other text
files in OO directly and printed them ok, so what's up with this one
file?

If you need the full output of the status.pr file after attempting to
print this document, I'll be more than happy to provide it privately. 
It takes up a LOT of space and I don't think anyone would like to see
the list cluttered up with all of that.

Thanks,

Wayne