[wplug] OpenOffice: Cannot install PDF Converter Printer

[Jonathan Billings]

One of the things that openoffice does, which I can't stand, is it runs 
it's configuration based on where you called it.  Thats why you have to 
"install" it into your home directory, otherwise it doesn't know where 
to save.  Why they couldn't just place binaries in /usr/local/bin, and 
save to some standard place in your home directory, like the rest of 
the unix world does.  Take a look at the shell scripts that run the 
openoffice apps, they are definately far too complicated.

Jonathan


On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 09:08  AM, Scott Kiesling wrote:

> Yep, that's how I did it -- I couldn't even run the spadmin in /opt
> (where my binaries are installed) either as root or user. Weird and
> confusing. I find the documentation for OOo difficult at best. If I had
> more time I'd help out with it...
>
> SFK
>
> On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 08:53, Russ Schneider wrote:
>>
>>
>> Scott Kiesling wrote:
>>> Perhaps try 'New Printer' while running spadmin as user? I think I 
>>> did
>>> the whole thing as user, and it worked. Might want to tell everyone 
>>> what
>>> distro you're running too.
>>
>> Well actually your email DID help me out.  Thank you.  When doing a
>> locate fot spadmin to try again, I noticed there were several 
>> spadmin's
>> on my system, including one in a hidden .OpenOffice directory under my
>> user.  I openned that one and created a new pdf printer and it worked.
>>
>>
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>
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