On Monday 24 May 2004 16:21, Chris Kloiber wrote: > On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 03:28, damon fister wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Having an interesting problem with Openoffice since spadmin/oopadmin has > > been removed. When i try to select File-->Printer Settings-->Properties > > I can not set any additional driver options for my printers, the dialog > > does not show up. This is a problem for me since I need to make use of > > duplexing and I also have a printer that I need to use a PPD driver. I am > > connecting to 2 jetdirect printers 1 HP Laserjet 4000 (standard driver) > > and 1 Xerox Phaser 8200 (PPD) . Any help on this would be greatly > > appreciated, especially if this is going to be the default OOo install in > > RHEL4. I would be saddened if I had to uninstall the new and improved > > RHOpenoffice and install a stock OOo. > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Damon Fister > > CUPS uses PPD files. put it in /usr/share/cups/model then set up the > printer using the system-config-printer. Duplex (and all other options) > should be accessible at that point. > > -- > Chris Kloiber Thank you for your quick response, Installing the PPD file is not a problem, I cannot open the print properties dialog in open office to select more advanced options. Duplexing does not work from the test pages in system-config-printers either. I am not running as root, I am running as a normal non-privileged user. Damon
