[gnome-love] Re: Problems Printing at ECOMM-CAN

[Maya <escalante canada com>]

What other information would you need to make myself clearer?
I really need this problem solved; I have my boss breathing on my neck!
TIA

On 2002.08.12 20:17 Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Maya said:
> > First of
> > ~~~~~~~~
> > 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
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > 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
>
> I can't help you with the printing, at least not without more details,
> but the spellchecker problem is simple - both of those programs are
> looking for an external dictionary to check words against.  I know
> abiword can use either ispell or aspell, don't know about balsa
> offhand.
> Check the recommends line in `apt-cache show balsa` - it'll tell you
> what dictionary it wants.  Alternately, use dselect or aptitude -
> it'll
> attempt to pull in the recommends.
> HTH,
> Steve
> --
> Like punning, programming is a play on words.