RE: [seul-edu] Star Office Color Printing

[Chris Hedemark <hedemark@bops.com>]

I just installed KDE 2.0.1 on a Red Hat 6.2 system here.  Haven't had much
opportunity to play with it yet.  BUT I have tried opening MS Excel
spreadsheets in KSpread and got a SIGSEV11 in KSpread.  Uh oh.  FWIW,
KOffice apps pop up and are ready to go very quickly.  It seems much leaner
than Star Office, which takes me ages to start.  I haven't had an
opportunity to really use KOffice yet so no opinion on useability or feature
set at this time.



-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Hoffman [mailto:tom_hoffman@mac.com]
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 4:50 PM
To: seul-edu@seul.org
Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Star Office Color Printing


Robert,

I'm planning on installing and trying KWord soon.  Can you tell me a little
more about how it is working for you?  Does it run well on older hardware?
What version are you using?

Can't help you with your problem, unfortunately.

Thanks,
--Tom Hoffman

on 12/7/00 11:45 AM, Robert Maynord at maynord@terracom.net wrote:

> Hi Seul Folks:
> 
> I'm having some printing problems, and I'm not sure where to begin
> troubleshooting.  Our school received several new computers, making it
> possible for us to run Star Office for teachers and the principal - as
well
> as for some of the students.  Today, I had the students printing out bar
> graphs.  They loved it, until the pages came out of the printer......
> 
> For most programs such as KWord, printing works fine.  Star Office (5.2
RPM
> from Mandrake 7.1) prints fine, except for pictures and some color items
such
> as charts. It's hard to describe, but parts of an image will have good
color,
> other parts move too quickly into grey scale.  Photos are almost all grey
> scale (the same photo in KWord prints fine).  Charts in Star Office will
> have a nice solid color for the background, and then the bars will be
> greyscale!
> 
> I am using CUPS, with the generic driver in Star Office.  I have also
tried
> other built-in Epson drivers, with the same results.  I tried Star Office
on
> different Mandrake 7.2 machines and printers, with the same results.
"Color"
> is turned on in Spadmin, with a depth of 24 (I also tried 8), postscript
> level 1 (I also tried 2).  The printers I have tried are the Epson 740 and
> Epson Stylus Color II.
> 
> While searching Deja news, I found one notice by a fellow who had the same
> problem, but had no solution. I searched the Sun FAQ/troubleshooting pages
> and they said if there was a color problem, turn color on in Spadmin (it
was
> already on).
> 
> Since I have the problem on multiple machines, I assume that others have
> experienced this same problem.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> 
> Robert Maynord
> 
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