[Scribus] How to print?

Gregory Pittman gpittman
Sun Jun 3 02:42:02 CEST 2007


BandiPat wrote:
> Gregory Pittman wrote:
> [...]
>   
>>> Ok, that prompted me to take a look in the ~/.scribus directory Andreas. 
>>>   I found only a tmp.ps file printed from 1.3.4, obviously the file I 
>>> tried printing as I've only done one.  Do you suppose the file is being 
>>> put there as tmp.ps and Scribus is calling the wrong file to print? 
>>> Rather than the original name of the file, it's renaming it to tmp.ps, 
>>> yet the command to print is using the real name?
>>>   
>>>       
>> When you print without saving to a specific name, Scribus creates the 
>> tmp.ps file and passes the printing job on to the default or whatever 
>> you've chosen. After it prints, it's supposed to delete the file (if 
>> you've chosen to print vs. simply save as a file).
>>
>> Greg
>> _______________________________________________
>>     
>
> Ok, again, I was curious, so decided to print the tmp.ps file via the 
> shell command.  It worked, printing the file I had attempted to do 
> earlier from Scribus.  It wanted to print page after page of the same 
> thing, but yet it did work with the lpr command.  Printing directly from 
> Scribus causes the printer to output pages, but blank ones, no printing. 
>   For some reason, it didn't remove the tmp.ps file as it should have. 
> That could be another problem the developers need to look at.
>   
Andreas tells me he has fixed this, but it came after the official 1.3.4 
release, so it's probably only in CVS (for now).

Greg



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