[moneydance] Printing in MD with Linux

[Bruce Marshall]

On Sunday 22 June 2008, Larry Alkoff wrote:
> Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > On Saturday 21 June 2008, Larry Alkoff wrote:
> >> How about your printing preferences?
> >>
> >> I have Printing method java2 and Font sans serif 10 point.
> >> Do you have the same?
> >>
> >> Unfortunately Sean has reported that he does not have a Linux machine so
> >> cannot test printing.  There are many who have problems and a very few
> >> that are printing merrily along.  I used to print ok a few years ago
> >> with Sun Java but not since then.
> >>
> >> Do you think it could be something about our cups?
> >> My printer is a HP LaserJet 4100.
> >
> > Did you get it working?
>
> No luck as yet Bruce.
>
> I've fiddled around some changing settings but nothing has made a
> difference.  When I try to print a report from MD, a report file is
> generated but nothing at all happens when I press the Print button.  No
> lights flash, no nuttin.  /var/log/cups/access.log has no error reports.
>
> Unfortunately, I can't copy and paste the report to a file for printing
> because Java won't allow me to copy.
>
> The only thing I can do is export it to a csv or html file which I
> _guess_ could be printed but that's pretty cumbersome to have to do each
> time.
>
> Also I can highlight a section of my MD register (say 10 lines) but MD
> won't let me copy it with either the Edit tab or ^c.
>
> I downloaded Robby Workman's suggestions.  I a large install file
> designed for Slackware with no indication inside of what version it
> installs or what it will do.  I don't want to bork my system over this.
>
> If you could find a place for your jre tarball I'll give that a try.
>
> Frustration!
>

I'll send you the email again.   One thing to note:

on my system it will try to load to   /opt/moneydance/

I assume you can move the resulting directory to a place of your choosing.