On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:05:19 -0500 webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <webmas...@krackedpress.com> dijo:
>I am sorry you are not getting any help. I wonder it it is an >isolated issue for Fedora 16. If people have not see this happen >before, it is hard to figure out what is causing it. > >So is there any issues with printing/exporting the file to PDF then >printing it out to your printer? Do your file require Postscript >printing instead of HP default printer language? Exporting to PDF and then printing with Okular, Evince, Adobe Reader, or other PDF viewers works fine. But that is more work than just clicking the Print button, or even wading through the Print dialog box tabs and menus to change the default behavior. The problem is that there is a new "PDF" setting in the print dialog box. It used to be on OOo that the default was to use whatever print options were set according to the driver you selected in CUPS (Postscript, Gutenprint, PCL, etc.). Now you have to go into General tab > Properties > Device > tab > Printer language type > where it gives you the options: *PDF Postscript - level from driver Postscript - level 1 Postscript - level 2 Postscript - level 3 And it is set to PDF by default. And the PDF option is broken - it does not use the font metrics built into the font, so characters print as though the font were a monospaced font. A word like "limit" comes out looking a bit like "l i mi t" (except that the second i is actually smashed into the m). Otherwise the printing is fine. And it uses the font metrics correctly if I manually select Postscript - level from driver, or Postscript level 1 or 2. It's just that the option is buried several clicks deep in the Print dialog box and I keep forgetting to change it from the default "PDF." Also, it does this with all fonts. I don't know why there is a "PDF" option in the Device tab, because only a handful of very expensive late model high end printers actually have the new Adobe PDF print engine built in. I'm talking printers costing $5,000 and up. If I write the document with Abiword, Kword, or any other word processor, it prints fine just by clicking the Print button. I wish I could post screen shots of the Device tab in the Print dialog box so you could see exactly what I am talking about. Even better would be if I could add screen shots of the Print dialog box from OOo where this problem did not exist. But OOo is not currently installed on my computer, having switched to Libreoffice after upgrading from Fedora 14 to Fedora 16. I just need to find a setting to change the default from "PDF" to "Postscript - level from driver" or "Postscript - level 2." It would be OK if Libreoffice would just remember the setting from last time I printed, but with each new document it has to be set again. If it's hard coded I'm probably going to have to uninstall Libreoffice and go back to OOo because I'm tired of wasting time, paper and toner every time I forget to change it. -- 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
