open office crashes when I try to print --( GG 7.10)

Have you tried with the Human Desktop Theme ?

Koen-
 I'm a newbie and I'm not sure what you mean by the the "Human Desktop Theme". I have reinstalled 7.10 on two different machines and the problem arises when I install the Nvidia restricted driver to enjoy the accelerated desktop graphics. The printing "problem" seems to "go away" when I disable the restricted NVidia driver; unfortunately so do the awesome desktop graphics One machine is a 1.8 Ghz P4 on an Intel Socket 478 board with 512M of ram, 80 gig hard drive, NVidia mx4000 card. The other is a 2.0Ghz Celeron with 512M of ram on a Soyo Dragon socket 478 board, 80 gig Hard drive with an Nvidia Mx440. BTW I can print in Abi office; it is only "OpenOffice" writer and spreadsheet problem that I have had the problem with --so far. Would the newest version of Hplip fix this problem?

The nice accelerated graphics/desktop effects us a lot of ram. This problem occurs in Microsoft Vista as well. (this has made many gamers unhappy) Two things.

1 - To take advantage of the desktop effects I would recommend at least double the minimum amount of ram if your video card is integrated on the motherboard and/or uses shared system memory.

2 - Also check in the bios to see if you can assign more of your ram to the video card. Check the manufacturers specifications to see how much shared ram can actually be used by the card since assigning more than can actually be used may also cause problems.

Let me clarify a little. If your video card is integrated into the motherboard, meaning that it is built into the motherboard, then it is using some of the 512mb of system ram. Typically, on most 1.6 ghz and 2.0 ghz P4 systems the default amount set is 64mb. your video cards will probably be able to use up to 128 mb of ram. But if you assign that much to the card then your system will only have 384mb which is the minimum amount.

Hope that helps.

THANK YOU KOEN

I tried the "human desktop theme." I'm printing again from open office!!!!!! I had been playing around and switched the appearance. I now enough about computers to get myself into trouble.

I was frustrated because Open office crashed when I printed. I was saving docs as PDF and printing them that way.

Yay, now I'm back to normal.

Thanks so much,

LisaJo

Thanks Koen Beek, that solved my question.