[gnome-love] Problems Printing at ECOMM-CAN

[Maya <escalante canada com>]

First of
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After reading the information about upgrading to GNOME2 provided by 
gnome.org, I
changed the 'sources.list' database from stable to unstable, did the 
updating and upgrading of the system and taataaa... No problems. I have 
noticed a grate improvement in the system; the applications run much 
faster and, so far, all the applications share data more effectively, 
the GUI is much nicer and all the applications are newer than the ones 
in the stable database. Mind you though, I have not yet install GNOME2 
I am still using the whatever portion of GNMOME2 that comes with the 
unstable packages. 
Now, I have not tested this on a real life network, but it is showing 
promises though.
The reason why I am not tested the upgrade on a real life network is 
because I first test all new things on a P133 box called, of course, 
TESTER_BOX, which runs Debian Linux and 64MB of RAM.

Congrats to the GNOME team as well as all the support application 
developers. Keep up the good work!

PROBLEMS in paradise
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At this stage in the upgrade I have but one serious problem, for some 
reason my EPSON Stylus COLOR 800 printer is spitting out garbage when I 
try to print from any of the GNOME applications [AbiWord, Balsa, 
Galeon], with the exception of gnomepad+ and gEdit. I checked/tested 
the printer before the upgrade though and it was OK. Note that 
TESTER_BOX has installed lpr and apsfilter to take care of the printing 
spooling and printcap respectively. It would appear that the problem 
resides in those applications that encode text, since it is only those 
applications that are showing this problem. Someone suggested that it 
was 'gnome-print' the source of the problem, I couldn't say that that 
is for sure. NEdit, gnomepad, gEdit save data in text mode; these data 
is printed correctly from the application itself or form the command 
prompt.

Another problem, although a minor one, is that none of the GNOME 
applications can check spell. From Balsa I get a message that reads:

I am sorry I can't find any suitable word lists for language-tag "en".

From Abiword one that reads:

Could not loads the dictionary for the en-US language.


I would appreciate any help regarding these matters.


Thanks in advance