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I have been using open office for the past two weeks with no problems. Set up a text document and was able to print it out this morning. Now, a couple of hours later, I can not print it put and get a message saying "client_error_not_possible". Any ideas why this does not work? My other documents and spreadsheets all print okay. Also when I change the fonts the program crashes.

This could be caused by a corrupted font. The other options to try are restarting OpenOffice.org or if that doesn't work try restarting your computer.

I have gone back into openoffice and have typed in all of the same info, in the same font, and I can print it out but not the old file, even though they are the same.

cpmack wrote:I have been using open office for the past two weeks with no problems. Set up a text document and was able to print it out this morning. Now, a couple of hours later, I can not print it put and get a message saying "client_error_not_possible". Any ideas why this does not work? My other documents and spreadsheets all print okay. Also when I change the fonts the program crashes.

Hi,
Sounds like a CUPS error :

http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L291+I10+TFAQ+M10+P1+Q
Why Am I Getting The Error: client-error-not possible?

Created at 08:04 Jun 15, 2005 by steve, last modified at 07:23 Feb 01, 2006

Possible causes of client-error-not-possible:

1. Trying to add a class with the same name as a printer.
2. Trying to add a printer with the same name as a class.
3. Trying to add a printer using a file: device without
setting "FileDevice" to "yes" in cupsd.conf.
4. Trying to add a printer using an unknown device URI or
scheme.
5. Trying to cancel a job that does not exist.
6. Trying to print a file when there are too many jobs in
the system.
7. Trying to print a file when you have exceeded your quota
settings.
8. Trying to move a job that has already printed.
9. Trying to release a job that is not held.
10. Trying to restart a job that is not completed.
11. Trying to change job options for a job that is completed.
12. Trying to print a directory.

All of these except #12, which happens on the client side in cupsPrintFiles(), will log a human-readable error in the /var/log/cups/error_log file


Alex

You may try to select the printer once again (or change to another one and back then). If that helps, the file lost its printig information somehow.
Try to export the text into a "text-only" file. Restart OOo. Import that file into OOo. Print. Itf that works, you got a font problem.
Please report the results here.