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Subject: Re: Lucide oddity
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"Doug Bissett" <dougb007!S...@telus.net> writes:

> I saw the same thing, Lucide just folded up when i tried to open a 
> document. No apparent errors. My guess is that it is looking for some 
> sort of printer definition (bootAble does not, yet, support printers),
> and decided to close when none was found. 

Hmm.  You've just identified a difference between my home and
office computers.  At home, I have a laser printer on the
parallel port, and that's where Lucide works.  At work, I print
to a print server, which routes the job to a printer on the
network; nothing is attached to the parallel port, and no local
printer is defined.

If that's the cause, then it's not a difference between my two
systems that is to blame, but rather how Lucide is coded, but
without knowing for sure, should one file a bug report?

Speaking of Lucide and printers, as I said, Lucide will load
a document if I launch it from the command line, but printing
doesn't work properly, in the sense that portrait documents
get printed in landscape mode, and it doesn't matter how I
configure the printer properties.  I suppose that is a bug
that can be reported, but to whom?  When one piece of software
interacts with another piece of software, how does one know
where the bug lies?  Because other applications print properly,
I would assume that the bug lies in Lucide, but I don't understand
how that's possible.  I thought that was the whole idea behind
using device drivers, to avoid having applications neeeding to
support all the various printers themselves.