Hi, sorry for the long delay - i've on holidays the last week.
Yes, I can try some thing on a different machine - what should I do? Greetings Thomas Am 29.10.2011 um 16:47 schrieb Tom Davies: > 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 -- 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
