On 18/02/2011, at 2:29 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Everyone, > > I am trying to print some *.doc files from the command line with > openoffice on centos 5.5 with using cups as the print server. > > I can open the file from the command line with open office and then > print it manually from the gui, but when I open the file and print from > command line I am not getting anything. > > The commands that I have used are the following : > > /usr/bin/openoffice.org -pt lpt4 /mnt/lp/document.doc > -terminate_after_init This works for me on LibreOffice on my Mac (also uses Cups) LibreOffice 3.3 330m12(Build:1) /path/to/soffice -headless -pt PRINTER_NAME doco.doc Note though that if you wanted to do this outside of X11, it might fail...