Chapter 7 Setting Up Printers, Faxes, and Fonts for StarOffice in Solaris and in Linux

This chapter describes how to use the spadmin command to set up printers, faxes, and fonts in UNIX.

Using the spadmin Command to Set Up Printers for StarOffice

StarOffice only offers direct support for PostScript^TM printers in Solaris. StarOffice automatically provides a printer that uses the default driver for each system queue. You can use the spadmin command to add additional printers.

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If your Linux operating system uses a printing system such as the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS), use that system instead of the spadmin command to set up your printer.

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To Add a Printer

Before You Begin

• Install the PostScript Printer Definition file (PPD) for your printer. You can find PPD files on the following web page:

  http://www.adobe.com/products/printerdrivers/

• If you want to use a non-PostScript printer, you must configure your operating system to translate PostScript into a language that the printer can understand. One solution is to use Ghostscript, A PostScript conversion software. You can download Ghostscript from the following web page:

  http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/

Steps

1. As root, run the spadmin command.

   <StarOffice installation>/program/spadmin

   The Printer Administration dialog box opens.

   Figure 7–1 Printer Administration dialog box.

   
   

2. Click the New Printer button.

3. Select Add a printer and click the Next button.

4. In the list of drivers, select the driver for your printer.

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   To remove a printer driver from the list, select the driver, and then click the Delete button. Do not delete the generic printer driver.

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   • If your printer is not in the list, select "Generic Printer".

   • If you have the PPD file for your printer, click the Import button.

     1. Click the Browse button and locate the PPD file.

     2. In the Selection of drivers list, select the printer driver that you want to install.

     3. Click the OK button.

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     If the printer uses non-standard PostScript fonts, you must copy the Adobe Font Metrics files (AFM) for the fonts into the <StarOffice installation>/share/psprint/fontmetric directory. You can download the AFM files for several fonts from the following web site:

     ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/win/all/afmfiles/

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5. Click the Next button.

6. In the list of command lines, select the command line for the printer.

   You can also type the command line in the box, for example, lp -d my_queue.

7. Click the Next button.

8. In the box, enter a name for the printer.

9. (Optional) To set the printer as the default printer, select Use as default printer.

10. Click the Finish button.

11. (Optional) To print a test page, click the Test Page button.

To Delete a Printer

Steps

1. As root, run the spadmin command.

   <StarOffice installation>/program/spadmin

   The Printer Administration dialog box opens.

2. In the Installed printers list, select the printer that you want to delete.

3. Click the Remove button.

To Specify the Default Printer

Steps

1. As root, run the spadmin command.

   <StarOffice installation>/program/spadmin

   The Printer Administration dialog box opens.

2. In the Installed printers list, select the printer that you want to use as the default printer.

3. Click the Default button.

To Rename a Printer

Steps

1. As root, run the spadmin command.

   <StarOffice installation>/program/spadmin

   The Printer Administration dialog box opens.

2. In the Installed printers list, select the printer that you want to rename.

3. Click the Rename button.

4. In the New printer name box, enter a name for the printer.

5. Click the OK button.

To Set Printing Defaults

Steps

1. As root, run the spadmin command.

   <StarOffice installation>/program/spadmin

   The Printer Administration dialog box opens.

2. In the Installed printers list, select the printer that you want to set the default printing preferences for.

3. Click the Properties button.

4. In the Properties dialog box, use the tab pages specify the settings for the printer.

   Command tab page

   Specify the options for the print request command for the printer.

   Paper tab page

   Specify the page size, page orientation, and page scale as well as duplex printing and paper tray options.

   Device tab page

   Specify the device-specific settings, such as color depth and PostScript level of the printer.

   Font Replacement tab page

   Specify the mapping of document fonts to printer fonts.

   Other Settings tab page

   Specify the margins for the printed page. You can also enter a comment for the printer that appears in the Printer Administration dialog box.

5. Click the OK button.

Using the spadmin Command to Configure a Fax Machine for StarOffice

If you have already installed a fax package such as Efax or HylaFax, you do not need to configure a fax machine with the spadmin command.

To Add a Fax Machine

Steps

1. As root, run the spadmin command.

   <StarOffice installation>/program/spadmin

   The Printer Administration dialog box opens.

2. Click the New Printer button.

3. Select Connect a fax device and click the Next button.

4. Select the driver for the fax machine.

   • If you do not know what type of driver to use, select The default driver.

   • If you want to use a specific driver, select As specific driver, to adapt the format to another printer.

     1. In the list of drivers, select the driver that you want to use.

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        If you want to use a driver that is not in the list, click the Import button, locate the driver, and then click the OK button.

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     2. Click the Next button.

5. Click the Next button.

6. Enter a command line for the fax machine, for example, sendfax -d "(PHONE)"(TMP).

   When you send a fax, StarOffice replaces (TMP) with the file that you want to send and "(PHONE)" with the fax number.

7. Click the Next button.

8. Enter a name for the fax machine.

9. (Optional) To exclude fax numbers from the fax, select Remove fax number from output.

10. Click the Finish button.

Using the spadmin Command to Install Additional Fonts for StarOffice

The spadmin command only makes a new font available to your StarOffice installation. To make the font available to other programs, you need to install the font on your Xserver. StarOffice can display and print PostScript Type1 fonts as well as TrueType fonts, including TrueType Collections.

To Add a New Font

Steps

1. As root, run the spadmin command.

   <StarOffice installation>/program/spadmin

   The Printer Administration dialog box opens.

2. Click the Fonts button.

   The Fonts dialog box opens. The dialog box lists the fonts that are available to StarOffice.

3. Click the Add button.

   The Add Fonts dialog box opens.

4. Click the ... button, locate the font(s) that you want to add, and then click Select.

5. (Optional) To copy the font(s) into the <StarOffice installation> directory, clear the Create soft links only check box. Otherwise, spadmin creates a symbolic link to the directory that contains the font(s).

6. Click OK.

To Remove a Font

Steps

1. As root, run the spadmin command.

   <StarOffice installation>/program/spadmin

   The Printer Administration dialog box opens.

2. Click the Fonts button.

   The Fonts dialog box opens.

3. In the list of fonts, select the fonts that you want to delete, and then click the Remove button.

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   You can only delete fonts that are only available to StarOffice.

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To Rename a Font

Steps

1. As root, run the spadmin command.

   <StarOffice installation>/program/spadmin

   The Printer Administration dialog box opens.

2. Click the Fonts button.

   The Fonts dialog box opens.

3. In the list of fonts, select the font that you want to rename, and then click the Rename button.

4. Enter a new name for the font.

5. Click the OK button.