[16424] in Athena Bugs
Re: ImageView on the SGI Platform
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Sun Oct 18 18:35:32 1998
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 18:35:30 -0400
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
To: Heather D Drake <pipa@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[16416] in Athena Bugs"
> Hi there. I wanted to report an apparent bug in the ImageView
> software found in /usr/sbin on the SGI platforms (both Indy and
> O2). When you try to print from ImageView, it opens a dialog box,
> but there are no printers available. (one must select a printer to
> be able to press the Print button). Having looked through the help
> files, I found no mention of a way to add printers to that list. If
> you can send back a message about this software (like, whether its
> a bug, or I am not using the software correctly) it would be much
> appreciated.
It looks like imgview runs lpstat to obtain a list of known printers
to choose from. (lpstat is part of the standard IRIX printing system,
and doesn't know about the Athena printing system). Unfortunately,
there doesn't seem to be a way to customize this behavior for our
environment; a less-than-ideal workaround would be to save the file,
and convert it to PostScript for printing.
Bob
