[libreoffice-users] Re: Printer always selects PDF instead of Postscript
On 02/01/2012 05:45 PM, TJ wrote: I tried running spadmin as root to change the default, but for some reason Mageia wouldn't do it. Probably just as well, as I'm very much out of my element when it comes to command line noodling. I found out what I was doing wrong to run spadmin, but it didn't help. While I could change the settings, they'd change back on their own as soon as I hit OK to close the box. Either I'm still doing something wrong, or something else is over riding it. TJ -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Printer always selects PDF instead of Postscript
On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:31:47 -0500 Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com dijo: On 02/01/2012 05:45 PM, TJ wrote: On 01/25/2012 01:56 PM, Don C. Myers wrote: I'm using LibreOffice 3.4.4 from the Mageia 1 repositories with KDE, trying to print to a Deskjet 5650 printer, and I'm having problems with this, too. My problem is related to that experienced by the Arch user in your second link, in that landscape -oriented spreadsheets from Calc aren't printing properly - to say the least. Mine prints fine until it gets to the 8.5 inch mark, then it prints a truncated version of the last column over and over until the edge of the paper. Print Preview looks fine, and while I haven't tried it yet I suspect printing to a pdf file would work, too. Changing the printer language to Postscript fixes it. I haven't noticed the problem with other applications yet, but then I don't print much as a regular rule, just this time of year. I didn't have the problem last year, when I was using Mandriva 2010.2 and OpenOffice. I can try to remember to change the printer language on every document I make in the future, but like Mr. Jordan I think it's a pain in the butt to remember to change it if I go to print old documents. I tried running spadmin as root to change the default, but for some reason Mageia wouldn't do it. Probably just as well, as I'm very much out of my element when it comes to command line noodling. It shouldn't have to be that way, anyway. There should be an easy way to make Postscript the default, if you want. I have not noticed any problems printing from Linux Mint 12. I would check the default printer settings and test the printer with another non-LO program to see if the problem is with the printer set up. The printer could be set up to default everywhere to pdf not to postscript. Let me clarify a few things. I first noticed this when printing to a Laserjet 4M+. I also have a 5SiMx, an 8000DN, and a Xerox Phaser 7400DN. The problem happens with most of them. And I have several printers installed for each physical printer, and it doesn't matter which one I select. I always get text with the font metrics messed up. This problem does not occur with any other program. This includes Abiword, Kword, Gedit, and Scribus - the usual programs I use for printing text. It did not occur with OpenOffice.org. I do not know if OOo used the same default to PDF as LibreOffice, and I cannot easily check because it is no longer installed. I could wipe out Fedora 16 and install Linux Mint, but the last time I changed distros it took almost a week to get everything reinstalled and reconfigured back the way I had it. I have a zillion programs installed, some of which took hours of tweaking to get them running. And I require these programs for my work. So, for now at least, I'm stuck with Fedora 16. Besides, I don't think the problem is in Fedora. From reading others' responses it appears that all we need to do is change the default from PDF to Postscript. I should add that just today I discovered another problem. I needed to print six copies of a one-page document (to give a paper copy to six different people). I remembered to check Postscript, but when the copies came out of the printer copy 2 was on the back of copy 1, copy 4 on the back of copy 3, and copy 6 on the back of copy 5. The only ways I can find to stop this behavior were to print one copy and click on the Print button six times, or disable the duplexer in the printer and try to remember to re-enable it afterward. LAME. But I will post this under another thread later. It's time for bed. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Printer always selects PDF instead of Postscript
Hi :) When i upgrade my OS i keep the existing one working and just set a new partition for the new one. Generally for me it's a 3 step process 1. Create a largish partition, say 20Gb for something bloated (like Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, openSUSE etc) (err bloat = more functionality built-in so it's not always bad). Install the new thing with it's /home on the same partition. Test it, update it, tweak and play around and perhaps even make a complete mess of it. After install i set the boot-menu to default to my working distro not the one i am test-driving. 2. Install to an old tiny partition but during install set /home to use my vast partition (relatively). Again set the boot-menu to my older but fully functioning distro that i am familiar with. 3. When i am happy about the new one i switch the boot-menu to the newer one. So, i always default into something i know works well enough for me and familiar enough that i can meet deadlines without having to deal with unexpected surprises, well mostly. I have even managed to do this with Windows but GnuLinux tends to make it easy or even wants to do it that way by default. Back when i was a bit of a distro-hopper i sometimes had to scavenge hard-drives from old 'dead' machines in order to get space for a new partition. Even the most bloated distro can fit on ancient crumbling drives that no respectable person would normally consider using. Hmm, well i do have a 100 MB hard-drive somewhere and a 1 or 2Gb one but they are really museum pieces. Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 2/2/12, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: From: John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Printer always selects PDF instead of Postscript To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Thursday, 2 February, 2012, 7:18 On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:31:47 -0500 Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com dijo: On 02/01/2012 05:45 PM, TJ wrote: On 01/25/2012 01:56 PM, Don C. Myers wrote: I'm using LibreOffice 3.4.4 from the Mageia 1 repositories with KDE, trying to print to a Deskjet 5650 printer, and I'm having problems with this, too. My problem is related to that experienced by the Arch user in your second link, in that landscape -oriented spreadsheets from Calc aren't printing properly - to say the least. Mine prints fine until it gets to the 8.5 inch mark, then it prints a truncated version of the last column over and over until the edge of the paper. Print Preview looks fine, and while I haven't tried it yet I suspect printing to a pdf file would work, too. Changing the printer language to Postscript fixes it. I haven't noticed the problem with other applications yet, but then I don't print much as a regular rule, just this time of year. I didn't have the problem last year, when I was using Mandriva 2010.2 and OpenOffice. I can try to remember to change the printer language on every document I make in the future, but like Mr. Jordan I think it's a pain in the butt to remember to change it if I go to print old documents. I tried running spadmin as root to change the default, but for some reason Mageia wouldn't do it. Probably just as well, as I'm very much out of my element when it comes to command line noodling. It shouldn't have to be that way, anyway. There should be an easy way to make Postscript the default, if you want. I have not noticed any problems printing from Linux Mint 12. I would check the default printer settings and test the printer with another non-LO program to see if the problem is with the printer set up. The printer could be set up to default everywhere to pdf not to postscript. Let me clarify a few things. I first noticed this when printing to a Laserjet 4M+. I also have a 5SiMx, an 8000DN, and a Xerox Phaser 7400DN. The problem happens with most of them. And I have several printers installed for each physical printer, and it doesn't matter which one I select. I always get text with the font metrics messed up. This problem does not occur with any other program. This includes Abiword, Kword, Gedit, and Scribus - the usual programs I use for printing text. It did not occur with OpenOffice.org. I do not know if OOo used the same default to PDF as LibreOffice, and I cannot easily check because it is no longer installed. I could wipe out Fedora 16 and install Linux Mint, but the last time I changed distros it took almost a week to get everything reinstalled and reconfigured back the way I had it. I have a zillion programs installed, some of which took hours of tweaking to get them running. And I require these programs for my work. So, for now at least, I'm stuck with Fedora 16. Besides, I don't think the problem is in Fedora. From reading others' responses it appears that all we need to do is change the default from PDF to Postscript. I should add that just today I discovered another problem. I needed to print six copies of a one-page document (to give a paper copy to six
[libreoffice-users] Re: Printer always selects PDF instead of Postscript
On 01/25/2012 01:56 PM, Don C. Myers wrote: Hi, Here is more information about this issue: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=94173 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/15938/libre-office-change-printer-language-type-from-pdf-to-postscript http://www.google.com/#hl=ensugexp=pfwlcp=25gs_id=2qxhr=tq=cups+printer+language+pdfpf=poutput=searchsclient=psy-abpbx=1oq=cups+printer+language+pdfaq=faqi=aql=gs_sm=gs_upl=bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osbfp=ed6966981cf4427abiw=1680bih=942 Don I'm using LibreOffice 3.4.4 from the Mageia 1 repositories with KDE, trying to print to a Deskjet 5650 printer, and I'm having problems with this, too. My problem is related to that experienced by the Arch user in your second link, in that landscape -oriented spreadsheets from Calc aren't printing properly - to say the least. Mine prints fine until it gets to the 8.5 inch mark, then it prints a truncated version of the last column over and over until the edge of the paper. Print Preview looks fine, and while I haven't tried it yet I suspect printing to a pdf file would work, too. Changing the printer language to Postscript fixes it. I haven't noticed the problem with other applications yet, but then I don't print much as a regular rule, just this time of year. I didn't have the problem last year, when I was using Mandriva 2010.2 and OpenOffice. I can try to remember to change the printer language on every document I make in the future, but like Mr. Jordan I think it's a pain in the butt to remember to change it if I go to print old documents. I tried running spadmin as root to change the default, but for some reason Mageia wouldn't do it. Probably just as well, as I'm very much out of my element when it comes to command line noodling. It shouldn't have to be that way, anyway. There should be an easy way to make Postscript the default, if you want. TJ -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Printer always selects PDF instead of Postscript
Hi :) Sadly some dialogues do appear to be different/missing in certain DEs. We have only noticed the 1 example so far afaik but where there is one there may be others. Happily, now is a great time to post bug-reports or add comments to old reports to confirm where things are still not quite right in your opinion. Sometimes old bug-reports from OOo need to be re-posted against LO because so much divergence has already happened that it would be good to know what issues people still want fixed. A LOT of old problems are getting fixed and sometimes not even by focussing on the individual bug-reports because code-clean-up is likely to have fixed a whole bunch of issues (and perhaps created a few new ones that need to be cleared-up quickly). Sometimes it might just be your opinion and people decided to go the other way but often such decisions are up for discussion and possibly changing. This is a great time to get involved with just bug-reporting but stepping it up to doing triaging and anything more just helps you get even more out of the project :) Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 24/1/12, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: From: John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Printer always selects PDF instead of Postscript To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Tuesday, 24 January, 2012, 19:28The appearance of the snip / dialog boxes might be different (size, color, borders, etc.), but the options should always be the same, right? As an unrelated issue ... snip / ... annoying behavior has persisted through my travels through OpenSuse, Debian, Fedora, and KDE, Gnome, and now Xfce, and continues after moving from OOo to Libreoffice. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Printer always selects PDF instead of Postscript
Hi :) Have you already opsted a bug-report about this? If not this link might help http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport We have just had a weird question that shows differences with LO's dialogues in different DEs (Desktop Environments). A dialogue in KDE ws very different from what everyone else gets. Are you using KDE too? Regards from Tom :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Printer-always-selects-PDF-instead-of-Postscript-tp3683822p3685636.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Printer always selects PDF instead of Postscript
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:50:34 -0800 (PST) Tom tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk dijo: Hi :) Have you already opsted a bug-report about this? If not this link might help http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport Haven't posted a bug report yet. Hoping that it is a setting that I can change. But thanks for the link. If I can't figure out a solution (or even if there is a solution but the user interface needs to be changed) I will definitely file a bug report. We have just had a weird question that shows differences with LO's dialogues in different DEs (Desktop Environments). A dialogue in KDE ws very different from what everyone else gets. Are you using KDE too? I am using Xfce, although Gnome 3 and KDE-whatever are also installed. But i doubt very much that this is a DE problem. The appearance of the dialog boxes might be different (size, color, borders, etc.), but the options should always be the same, right? As an unrelated issue, since my early days with Ubuntu Breezy (yes, that many years ago), OOo has never taken the window focus properly. I restore the program from the panel and it does not get the focus until I click on it. This annoying behavior has persisted through my travels through OpenSuse, Debian, Fedora, and KDE, Gnome, and now Xfce, and continues after moving from OOo to Libreoffice. At the moment I have a Firefox window on the desktop, my mail client, and Libreoffice Writer, with the mail client in the foreground, since it is what I am using right now. If I click on Libreoffice Writer in the panel the Writer window moves to the top, but does not get focus. It's the failure to take focus that is annoying. But this is off-topic for the present thread. I just wanted to say that when I get around to filing bug reports I should report this one as well, although considering its senescence I suspect it has already been filed repeatedly. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
