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diff --git a/doc/faq.html b/doc/faq.html index 80e68a2d..12da05dc 100755 --- a/doc/faq.html +++ b/doc/faq.html @@ -1,4 +1,23 @@ <ul> +<li><h4>Printing to a Printer from a Windows Server</h4><p> +There are several obstacles to printing from a web appliction that was written +for Linux or UNIX in Windows. +These include:</p><ul> +<li>Lack of Postscript support in the printing subsystem. To resolve this, you + must install Ghostscript and Gsview. The latter package provides a utility + called gsprint that will allow you to print Postscript on your Windows + printer.</li> +<li>The fact that most Windows software, including gsprint, tends to print + output that will cause the web server to crash. The winprint.bat included + with this distribution corrects this problem. To use the winprint.bat + solution, configure your printers in your ledger-smb.conf as + "winprint.bat printer-name." If you omit the printer name, the default + printer will be used.</li> +<li>Windows does not allow you to set up system printers that all users can + access. Thus the web server often doesn't have access to the printers you + have set up. To correct this issue, follow the steps at + <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q184291/"> + http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q184291/</a>.</li></ul></li> <p><li><h4>Error on converting from SQL-Ledger: ERROR: column "chart_id" contains null values</h4> SQL-Ledger does not enforce a NOT NULL constraint on the chart_id field in the |