[scribus] Scribus not printing??

Murray Strome wmstrome at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 9 13:47:22 UTC 2011


On Wednesday, June 8, 2011 10:04 AM  "John Ghormley KJ4UFG" <kj4ufg at sera.org> wrote:

            	
            	
            	On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Ian "Witty" Whitfield <editor at federalsaints.net> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Interesting problem here today. I use Scribus 1.4 RC3 on Mint 10 KDE and
> all has been well up to now.
>
> As of today I can no longer print from Scribus. If I try I get a "No Paper"
> error on the printer (A Brother MFC8860DN and with a full paper tray!). I
> don't do much printing from Scribus but there are a couple of things I do
> need to print out each month.
>
> I have tried everything and found out the following - it ONLY happens from
> Scribus!!!! I can do Print Test Page, Print Self Test and printouts from 3
> or 4 other installed programs but _NOT_ from Scribus!!!???
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ian Whitfield.
>
>
Ian,
I have never been able to print directly from my Ubuntu installation.  It
appears it would print if I had an Postscript printer but I don't have one.
Therefore, I have to export to a pdf and then print the pdf externally to
Scribus.  Let me know if you have been able to print from your Linux distro
in the past.
-- 
John Ghormley  KJ4UFG
Editor, SERA *Repeater Journal*
Walkertown, NC  USA
editor at sera.org

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Ian, John:

I am not sure why you would even want to print directly from Scribus. For me, at least, the whole purpose of using Scribus is to do a layout in order to create a PDF document for printing (in my case, usually at a photo copy centre).  If I am at an intermediate stage in creating a document and want to see how it would look on paper, I just create a temporary PDF. If printing directly from Scribus "worked" (and I don't know whether it does or not on my version, 1.4.0.rc4 on Kubuntu 11.04)  worked, I probably would not use it as I wouldn't trust it to look exactly like the PDF file I would eventually want to create.

Murray
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