Printer question, none show up

[John Ralls]

On Apr 9, 2010, at 3:40 PM, Ken Springer wrote:

> Now, if I knew what gtk was, it might help.   LOL
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> LIkewise, creator codes = ???????
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> What's dbus??????
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> I'm relatively new to Macs, and I have Leopard, not Snow Leopard.  Possibly an update for Leopard also broke the convention, but I have no idea about that.  I also have an old Power Mac with System 9.1, it also does not add extensions to the filename.  Never used it much.
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> As for the Wiki, it's waaaaaaaay over my head.  May as well try to read and understand Greek.   :-)  
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> And from that page, "Gnucash can't see the Mac's installed printers, probably because they're not registered with Gnome. To print, use the "Preview" button on the print dialog, which will open Preview.app with a PDF of your output. You can print from there. "
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> I'm just an ordinary computer user, what do I know about Gnome?  Exactly 2 things, an alternative desktop for Linux, and fictional fantasy creatures.  And if you dump the silent G off, it's a town in Alaska.   LOL  
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> I never thought to try the preview, since if there's no printer to print from, why would there (normally) be a preview?
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> I used to really like all of this "fiddling around" to get things to work, but those days are behind me.  I just want to turn my computers on, and have the options all work.
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> I picked GnuCash because it's open source, and I'd truly like to see Open Source software succeed.  But if I can't understand the help files, what good is it to me?  And why should I donate and support it?  I have donated to the open source programs I do use regularly, and find the help files to be...well...  helpful.   ::  smile ::
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> Sorry for the soapbox, folks, but parts of the computer world just frustrate me to no end, anymore.
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Regards,
John Ralls