Hi :) In your existing Arch could you just install a virtual machine and try out a few things in there? Alternatively create a new partition on a hard-drive and use that for experimentation.
You surely don't need to trash what you do have that is almost perfect in order to just try something a little different! Regards from Tom :) --- On Sat, 29/10/11, Thomas Knierim <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Thomas Knierim <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] can't print to pages on a single side of > paper > To: [email protected] > Date: Saturday, 29 October, 2011, 15:24 > OK, that's some kind of confusing: > Using Ubuntu everything works out of the box! Where is the > difference to other distributions? > > The Versions are nearly the same: > > Cups: > - OpenSuse: 1.5 > - Archlinux: 1.5 > - ubuntu: 1.5 > Ghostscript > - Opensuse: 9.00 > - Archlinux: 9.04 > - ubuntu: 9.04 > hplip > - Opensuse: 3.11.10 > - Archlinux: 3.11.10 > - ubuntu: 3.11.7 > libreoffice: > - Opensuse: 3.4.2 OOO340m1 (Build: 1206) > - Archlinux: 3.4.3 (build unknown since Archlinux is not > installed this moment) > - ubuntu: 3.4.3 OOO340m1 (build 302) > > So I go back and install archlinux again to see what > happens if I install hplip 3.11.7. > > > Am 29.10.2011 um 01:59 schrieb webmaster for Kracked Press > Productions: > > > > > Sorry, I just say the Device option tap showing PDF as > the default. I do not know what "PDF" means in this > context, since my printers may have that as a printer > language type, as far as I remember. My HP Inkjet is > not a postscript printer, but my Color Laser might be able > to deal with that. I did not see Postscript as an > option for the Epson inkjet. I sure did not read it > having a PDF language option. So something is not > right. Could PDF here mean "Printer Defined Format" > for the language used? > > > > Can the Postscript type "level from driver" be kept as > the "default" option somehow? Maybe the "Printer > Administration" shown was a module of LO 3.4 [at least with > Ubuntu]? I believe that module of LO was designed to > set up the printers to run properly with LO. > > > > -------------- > > > > CUPS-PDF - no package for OpenSUSE? I > wondered what OpenSUSE uses as a replacement package, so I > looked it up on the site. > > > > On the opensuse.org site, 12.1 is in RC till November > 16th. I searched the packages and there are 3 rpm > package files [depending on the computer] for > cups-pdf-2.5.1-1.1 > > > > If I read the site correctly, 12.1 is the > "opensuse/factory" development version since it still is in > development till November 16th. So the search for the > cups pdf package in that and the other version come up with > a .rpm file to download and install it. So it should > be in the OpenSUSE version of a repository. > > > > http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=cups+pdf&baseproject=openSUSE%3AFactory〈=en&exclude_debug=true > > <http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=cups+pdf&baseproject=openSUSE%3AFactory〈=en&exclude_debug=true> > > I wonder why it was not part of the ISO that you > downloaded to install OpenSUSE? > > > > Actually I had trouble with OpenSUSE, the one time I > tried using it. I have an IBM server that originally > had SUSE installed on it, so the icon tag showed. But > I bought it with the OS, and everything else, wiped off the > 3 SCSI drives that 2002 era P-4 IBM server had. So I > downloaded OpenSUSE [3 or 4 years ago] and tried to install > it, but it would not install. So I ended using an old > copy of Win2000/pro till I ended up putting Ubuntu on it 2 > years ago. So I never had any luck with > OpenSUSE. If they do not include, in their ISOs, > something as simple as the PDF package that is part of the > CUPS printer environment, I do not know what to think. > My Epson printer uses a driver that uses CUPS as its backend > so I can print using Linux computers. > > > > Do not get me wrong, OpenSUSE might be a great Linux > OS, since businesses are what it tends to be what it is > marketed towards, but I just had one bad experience and did > not look back. I use Ubuntu, and other people tell me > to try "such-n-such" Linux distro since they think it is the > best you can get. We have one person on this board > that is involved in developing the Mandriva, which was > Mandrake. I was taught Linux using Mandrake 7.x, back > 10 to 11 years ago [if I remember correctly, and I still > have a CD of it]. That one is in the top 10 of the > list of distros I came across on a distro watch site. > OpenSUSE is on that list as well. Arch Linux is > considered an advanced user distro while OpenSUSE is a > "middle-of-the-road" one. Their terms, not mine. But > we each have our favorite ones. I have mine and you > have yours. That it what it should be. > > > > > > > > > > On 10/28/2011 12:04 PM, Thomas Knierim wrote: > >> Hi > >> Am 28.10.2011 um 15:36 schrieb webmaster for > Kracked Press Productions: > >> > >>> I do not know about why PDF is set as the > default for that printer. I never saw an HP printer > use PDF as a default language for the printer. > >>> > >> The Printer Language is set by LibreOffice. If you > open the print dialog, klick on the printer and then on > properties you get a new window. Select the tab device and > here you have the printer language PDF (don't know if the > Words of the tab etc. are correct since I use a german > version). Again: setting this to PostScript (Level of the > Driver) resolves the problem - but that are too much clicks > for a print job. > >> > >>> Did you download and install the HP drivers > for Linux? Here is the link to the site. > >>> http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html > >> Yes I have the newest Version installed. The most > recent version is 3.11.10... > >> > >>> I have two HP printers. Color Laserjet > 2600n and PSC1410. I needed these updated drivers to > make the printers work the best for Ubuntu Linux. When > you run the file in the Terminal [instructions are given on > the site], it should ask about which OS and printer you > have, before you download the needed file. Then when > you run the script, it will download everything that is > needed and install the needed packages for you. > >>> > >>> This may help, if you did not install the > drivers. I found that the drivers included with Ubuntu > 10.04 was not as good as the most up-to-date ones from that > site. > >>> > >>> The system shows the OS for SUSE 11.3 and > 11.4, and you will have to page down the printer list a long > way to get to your printer, after you select OfficeJet Pro > as the type of printer. I do not see ArchLinux, but > you should be able to use the driver from the parent OS like > Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora, etc., whatever it is. It > shows the same version for the package as you listed, but so > did Ubuntu, but for some reason when I installed the version > from this site, it seemed to work better. Actually, I > just realized that I am running an older version than is > online, so I will be upgrading it myself. > >>> > >>> IF you still have the problems, make sure you > use the non-PDF language for your default printer > language. HP's language or Postscript language is > preferred. > >> ... PDF is set in LibreOffice (see above) :( > >> > >>> As for CUPS, did you install CUPS-PDF from > your package manager? That is my default way to print > out PDF files, even from LibreOffice [most of the time]. > >> In OpenSuse 12.1 (standard) there is no package > called cups-pdf > >> > >>> As for the 2 pages per sheet, the orientation > for the sheet should be landscape. If it is otherwise, > then there is a problem. > >>> > >>> On 10/28/2011 08:38 AM, Thomas Knierim wrote: > >>>> Hi everybody, > >>>> > >>>> this is my first post in a mailing list - > so please be patient. > >>>> > >>>> I have a strange problem - and I have to > admint: I don't know if it belongs to llibreoffice only. So > here is the Problem: > >>>> I'm using a HP Officjet Pro k8600dn and I > can't print to pages on a sheet of paper. If I start a print > job the paper gets loaded and the printer hangs. I could > only bring it back to live if I switch it off and on again. > The problem does only appear if the printer language is set > to PDF (the default) in LibreOffice. If I set it to > PostScript (level of the driver) the printer works as > expected. > >>>> On the other hand: I have an old HP > Laserjet 5L. With it the two-pages-on-a-sheet-printing works > (but the orientation is wrong - but that's another > problem). > >>>> > >>>> Here is my software: > >>>> OperationSystem: Linux (OpenSuse RC1 or > Archlinux - both the same error) > >>>> LibreOffice: 3.4.2 > >>>> CUPS: 1.5.0 > >>>> hplip: 3.11.10 > >>>> > >>>> Greetings tknierim > >>> > >>> -- > >>> For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: > [email protected] > >>> 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 > >>> > >> > > > > > > -- > > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] > > 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 > > > > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] > 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 > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] 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
