[moneydance] Printing with Suse10.1

[Ron Thompson]

Keith Bates spoke thusly:<br>
> On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 20:56:54 -0500
> Ron Thompson <danorske at swbell.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi,
>> I have just updated from Suse 10.0 to 10.1. Under 10.0 Moneydance
>> worked like a champ, ie printed. Now that I am on 10.1 Moneydance
>> does not print. Same machine & printer.  Also, am running Moneydance
>> 528. It looks like it's printing but nothing goes to the printer.
>>
>> Can anyone help me out?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ron
>>     
>
> The dreaded Printing in linux problem
>
> The most likely cause is a symlink to lpr, lpd or similar has been
> removed in the upgrade.
>
> I posted a summary of the issue on this list not long ago. Here is what
> I wrote then. I hope it helps
>
>
> Here are some things to check from my own experience and gleaned from
> trawling through posts on the net.
>
> 1. check that symlinks in /usr/bin that start with lp* (e.g. lpr, lpd,
> lpc) actually point somewhere.
>   
When I go there I find "lpr", It's an executable file. What do I do with
it? How do I make it point some where?
> 2. Apparently a printer name with parentheses upsets cups so rename
> your printer, if this is the case
>   
Where is this?
> 3. Update java to 1.5
>   
done
> 4. Make sure you have the latest version of your distro. Part of my
> remediation was an update of debian testing... this may have been one
> of the factors which fixed the problem
> 5. For some reason, even though I've now got reports that print, the
> headings never come out.
>
> 6. Can you print to file? If so does it actually produce the postscript
> file?
>   
Yes, I has about 25 pages in it.
> 7. Just remembered this one... in MD preverences make sure that in the
> printing tab you select Java 2. (If that still doesn't work try Java 1)
>   
no difference
> Hope that one or more of these options resolve your problem. Don't
> forget to tell us when you get it sorted what fixed it.
>   
Yea, me too. :=)

Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Ron